A REALLY NICE EXAMPLE OF A LAST 1969/70 YELLOW/BLACK UK MONO PRESSING WITHOUT THE SOLD IN UK TEXT AND THIS ALSO HAS TO BE A CANDIDATE FOR RAREST EVER MONO VARIANT !!

WHY ? WELL WITHOUT THE SOLD IN UK TEXT ON TH LABEL THIS PRESS DATES FROM AUGUST 1969 TO JANUARY  1970 . THIS  VARIANT IS RARE ENOUGH IN STEREO  BUT THIS IS  ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE IN MONO  AS AT THAT TIME NOT ONLY  MONO PRESSINGS WERE BEING PHASED OUT AS THEY WERE NOW ONLY SELLING IN TINY NUMBERS AND WOULD BE DISCONTINUED COMPLETELY BY 1970 !!  

IN TRUTH IT ONLY HAS ONE CANDIDATE THAT CAN CALL ITSELF RARER THAN THIS PRESS, THAT IS THE MONO ONE BOX EMI ISSUE FROM EARLY 1970 BUT BE IN NO DOUBT HOW RARE THIS PRESS IS, IN BEATLES COLLECTNG . COM SOMEWHAT UNDERSTATEDLY THEY SAY :

Mono 2nd Label

In mid '69 the laws that required EMI to add the 'Sold in UK' statement to their labels was repealed and so for a short time the yellow and black labels appeared without it. Not a very common variation for this album.

http://www.beatlescollecting.co.uk/labelmonopepper.html

TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE I DARE YOU !!!!

ANYBODY WHO HAS TRAWLED THE INTERNET AND BOUGHT WHAT THEY HAD THOUGHT LOOKED LIKE A FABULOUS COPY OF THIS LP ONLY TO BE DISSAPOINTED TIME AND TIME AGAIN UPON IT'S ARRIVAL WILL KNOW WHERE I AM COMMING FROM.... 

FOR SOME REASON ( PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE GROUNDBREAKING LACK OF RACK BANDING ) THESE EARLY PEPPERS UPON CLOSE INSPECTION APPEAR DULLED WITH MANY SURFACE / BAG REMOVAL MARKS  MARKS. ALSO THE EARLIER FLIPBACK SLEEVES ALSO SEEM TO SURVIVE BADLY, ESPECIALLY AT THE SPINE SO IT IS SUCH A JOY TO KNOW THAT WITH THIS COPY IS MORE THAN RESPECTABLE AS WELL AS RARE SO YOU WILL NOT TO BE DISSAPOINTED ...

 GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS !!

For Auction here is the UK LP ''  SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND " 

ARTIST:  THE BEATLES

MONO/STEREO: MONO

Cat. No : PMC 7027

LABEL: PARLOPHONE  

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: 1967 THIS COPY  AUGUST1969 TO JAN 1970

MATRICIES:  -1 -1

VINYL WEIGHT: 140g

THE CONDITION

SLEEVE:  A LOVELY MONO EXAMPLE THIS ONE HAS JUST SOME CREASING AND A BOTTOM CORNER BUMP BUT STILL CREAKS UPON OPENING AND  STILL STIFF ENOUGH NOT TO FOLD COMPLETELY FLAT -   ONLY MINOR EDGE WARE WITH SPINE FULLY READABLE AND STILL A LOVELY SHEEN TO THE THE LAMINATE  SO GRADES A VERY RESPECTABLE  VG PLUS, MAYBE BETTER 

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VINYL VISUAL : AMAZINGLY RETAINS ITS DEEP SHINE WHICH IS SO RARE WITH PEPPERS AS I HAVE SAID ABOVE , THERE ARE SOME MOSTLY WHISPY BAG REMOVAL  MARKS IF HELD UNDER A HALOGEN LAMP I HAVE NO PROBLEM IN GRADING THIS COPY AS  VG+ PLUS  WHICH FOR ONE OF THESE IS MORE LIKE EX FOR ONE OF THESE

LABELS: NO WRITINGS  BUT EVIDENCE OF PLAY AND THERE IS A FACTORY SAMPLE STICKER ON SIDE ONE FOR WHICH I MAKE NO CLAIMS FOR, ALL I WILL SAY THAT UNLIKE MANY IT APPEARS TO BE THE CORRECT SIZE SHAPE AND COLOUR BUT BECAUSE THERE SEEM SO MANY AROUND TODAY IT IS VERY MUCH SOLD AS SEEN - GRADES EXCELLENT -

INSERT: AGAIN NO SERIOUS FLAWS, GRADES EXCELLENT +

THIS VARIANT DID NOT COME WITH A FOOL INNER, THAT WAS DISCONTINUED IN 1968

TRUELY LOVELY EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE RAREST MONO VARIANTS - GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS, YOU WILL NEED IT TO WIN THIS BEAUTY !

FOR BIDDERS OUTSIDE UK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT...  non uk bidders please read my notes about international postage below.....returns policy only applies to UK outside of UK buyer has to cover the return postage! FOR INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT due to ebays revised " buyer " protection policy even more sellers will start to refuse to sell internationally. I however will still sell internationally but i reserve the right to not to complete any international transaction if the buyer has any bad or witheld feedback or for any other reason that I choose and this is especially so for items that sell for near to GBP 150 or higher. So if you are an international bidder and win one of my auctions and then find I have completed the transaction elsewhere this will be because the new ebay/paypal policy now makes it almost impossible for sellers to sell safely overseas, thank youFOR BIDDERS WITH ZERO FEEDBACK THIS IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT...   I have recently been the victim of serveral spurious bids from several different members (usually based in the Russian Federation). Please note that if you win any of my items and have zero feedback I will ask you for immediate payment or for you to email and immediately confirm that you were a genuine bidder. Failiure to meet either of those critiera will result in the item being  offered to the next highest bidder without further delay. thank you.

(Please note that whilst I try to endeavour to adhere to strict RC gradings I will never describe ANYTHING AS MINT even when I think it to be so. As far as I am concerned any secondhand item by definition cannot be mint. However if I believe an item to be Mint  I will instead either use the terms Near Mint, mint minus, or in archive or vault condition. When I use these terms you know that in my opinion this is in effect a de-facto Mint grade )

INSURANCE INCLUDED IN P&P PRICE DEPENDING ON FINAL SALE VALUE...

Dont forget to take a look at my other items. Please feel free to contact me with any queries you may have.

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I ONLY DO A COUPLE OF RUNS A WEEK TO THE POST OFFICE BUT MY ITEMS ARE ALWAYS DISPATCHED WELL WITHIN ONE CALENDAR WEEK OF PAYMENT BEING RECEIVED. I APOLOGISE IN ADVANCE TO THOSE BUYERS WHO SEEM TO EXPECT THEIR ITEM TO ARRIVE THE NEXT DAY, IF YOU WANT TO CHECK WHEN AN ITEM WAS SENT JUST PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND I WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO TELL YOU!! (SOME PEOPLE DO MAKE YOU LAUGH, FOR ITEMS I BUY I ONLY NORMALLY GET CONCERNED AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND EVEN AFTER THAT THEN ONLY POLIETELY ENQUIRE IF AND WHEN THE ITEM WAS SENT).

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PAYMENTS BY PAYPAL ARE PREFERRED BUT I ALSO ACCEPT OTHER METHODS. I ALSO POST WORLDWIDE (PLS APPLY FOR RATES) BUT DUE TO A PROBLEM WITH A DISREPUTABLE BUYER IN JAPAN (EBAY WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO NAME THEM) , FOR ALL PAYMENTS MADE VIA PAYPAL THE ITEM WILL ONLY BE SENT BOTH TO THE UK AND WORLDWIDE BY RECORDED OR INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR DELIVERY. THIS IS TO ELIMINATE THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY ATTEMPT TO CLAIM BACK THE PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL EVEN AFTER ACTUALLY HAVING RECEIVED THE ITEM.

THIS OBVIOUSLY HAS HAD THE RESULT OF INCREASING MY COSTS FOR POSTING AND PACKING AND I AM VERY SORRY FOR THIS BUT PAYPAL OFFER NO PROTECTION FOR SELLERS UNLESS THERE IS PROOF OF DELIVERY!! PROOF OF POSTING WOULD SEEM INSUFFICIENT TO THEM AND I HAVE FOUND THIS OUT THE HARD WAY.. 

DUE TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF THIS SAME BUYER PAYPAL PAYMENTS WILL ALSO NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM BUYERS WHO DO NOT ALLOW THEIR FEEDBACK TO READ, SO IF YOU FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY PLEASE DO NOT BID ON MY ITEMS UNLESS YOU CAN PAY BY ANOTHER METHOD…….

COST VIA INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR MAIL TO EUROPE HAS RECENTLY INCREASED SO FOR A SINGLE LP IS NOW USUALLY GBP 9.99 AND TO THE USA/REST OF THE WORLD GBP 13.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND 16.99 FOR A DOUBLE BASED ON A "DECLARED" VALUE OF UNDER GBP 50...EACH ADDITIONAL LP SENT COMBINED WITH THIS PLEASE ADD G 2.00 PER EXTRA DISC

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