THE BEATLES - WHITE ALBUM COMPLETE 1ST STEREO PCS 7067/ 8 VG+/ G LP KJT TAX CODE

	£		75
	$		99

THE BEATLES

'WHITE ALBUM'

ORIGINAL STEREO PRESS NUMBERED TOP LOADING SLEEVE

Catalogue no. PCS 7067/ 7068

Master Matrices YEX 709-1/ YEX 710-1/ YEX 711-1/ YEX 712-1

NOVEMBER 1968 PRESSING

The Sleeve: Top loading sleeve in Good condition, fully laminated with only some minor signs of shelf wear on the corners. All text legible and pictorials clear and glossy and has held original colour well. There is a water stain that is on the inside and outside. Inside the gatefold is very good; smooth, glossy and clean with clear print. 'The BEATLES' logo on the front is embossed and raised as it was on all first issue sleeves, and the number is in the 7 digit format also embossed and raised. The laminate along the length of the spine is partly present but some has worn away, all original title and catalogue number text is legible. The sleeve is firm and flat and intact, including the inner partition. There are no rips or splits anywhere. The sleeve is sturdy and firm holding the records and inserts well.

No handwriting or marks. Inner Sleeves: Very Good Plus condition inner sleeves.

The 1st pressings of the White Album came with plain black inner sleeves with the label window on one side only, and one bottom edge corner having a wider slant that the opposite bottom corner.

Both are both still sturdy and hold the vinyl's well. No handwriting or marks.

Poster: Excellent Condition. No blemishes, and no tears or rips, and has survived extremely well. A couple of tiny creases on centre fold line hard to see. No handwriting or marks The Four Portrait Photographs: Excellent Minus Condition, no corner creases, and hardly ever removed from the sleeve. Light marks on the white reverse on a couple of them. No handwriting

The Vinyl: The vinyl surfaces are consistently in Very Good Plus Condition. There are no feelable or deep scratches on either side of either discs, but a few stylus surface hairline marks on each side and wispy marks near the outer rims , mainly viewable under strong light. There are no scuffs or warps or dinks in the vinyl or anything that causes any major interruption to the audio. The glossy sheen is still present and there are no areas of dulling or groove wear. The records have received a reasonable of amount plays commensurate with age and are in a far over average condition, with the vast majority of the surface having no blemishes very near Excellent.

The records lay completely flat on the turntable.

Robust Sixties vinyl's weighing at around 161 grams.

Labels are all Excellent. All text is clear and bright, the perimeter area around the spindle location is neat with no wear and any spindle line traces are limited within the central groove ring.  No handwriting or marks.

Has the rarer KJT tax code embossed on SIDE 3 label. The vast majority of original White Album's will have KT.

Mother/ Stamps :-

 Side 1: Mother 6 Stamper OP

                                      Side 2: Mother 4 Stamper PG

    Side 3: Mother 4 Stamper TM 

   Side 4: Mother 1 Stamper TP

The Audio: The audio grades at Excellent

Both discs play through clearly on both sides, with no pops, no background noises such as crackle or hiss, and there are no skips or sticks. There are some static type ticks which can be heard now and again, where to be expected i.e. the quieter parts on some tracks on a couple of the sides. Plays without interruption offering a crisp and smooth original stereo rendition of which many critics regard as The Beatles finest masterpiece.

The vinyl sides 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all from the very first stereo master recording and none are from the second master recording. The mothers and stamps stamps are low being only single digits and double letters. LP 1 is without 'An EMI Recording' and with dark apples on LP 1. The number on the sleeve is about mid-way for a Stereo pressing - it is well known that numbers 0000001-0300000 were reserved for Mono and some exports, and that 0300001-0600000 were reserved for Stereo. These factors indicate that this is a first Pressing.

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 This LP will be securely delivered in a professional cardboard LP mailer with cardboard stiffeners.

New plain black generic poly-lined inner sleeves will house the records as shown, and the originals will be placed separately.

A new protective PVC 180 gsm gatefold sleeve is included as shown to house the LP.

This White Album will be delivered by recorded delivery in the UK.

Overseas postage will be tracked and a tracking number given.

To grade this record I am using the official grading system for collectable records from the Record Collector Magazine.

Happy to refund on return if not satisfied.