
Badge and "picture card" cut-outs from the insert included with the LP
Beatles scholarship would be advanced immeasurably by the discovery of the original photograph of this man. How much of the image was added by Peter Blake in 1967? Is there a real moustache beneath the cartoon, or is the original Sgt. Pepper moustache itself a fiction? Who is the sad-eyed man who sat for this photo? Assuming that the sergeant stripes are not Blake's addition, is this the uniform of a military sergeant or a police sergeant? An officer of the British Raj? (Could Pepper have earned his stripes in India?)

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