THE BEATLES - WHITE ALBUM COMPLETE 1ST STEREO PCS 7067/ 8 VG/VG+/VG- LP
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Description
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 712-2
NOVEMBER 1968 PRESSING
The Sleeve:
Top loading sleeve in Very Good Minus condition (a few marks but generally clean, light indents to laminate and minor corner wear to card but no significant damage to the material). It is fully laminated front to back and inside with no lifting, but with a couple of crease lines on the front. All text legible and pictorials clear and glossy and has held original colour well. Inside the gatefold is excellent; smooth, glossy and clean with clear print and unblemished black & white square pictorials of each band member. '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. Number 0381966
The laminate along the length of the spine is fully intact, and all original title and catalogue number text is legible. The sleeve is firm and flat and intact, including the inner partition.
No rips or splits or repairs and the sleeve is sturdy and firm, holding the records and inserts well.
No handwriting, no sticker or sticker residue.
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. They have a little record ring wear and insertion creases but no splits or rips. No handwriting or major 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 extremely hard to see.
No handwriting or marks.
The Four Portrait Photographs:
Excellent Condition, no corner creases, and hardly ever removed from the sleeve.
No handwriting or marks.
The Vinyl:
The vinyl surfaces are in an overall Very Good Condition with some sides being slightly better than others. There are no feelable or deep scratches on either side of either discs, but they do have light non-feelable stylus surface hairline marks in most areas/ cleaning trails and light scuff here and there. There are no warps or dinks in the vinyl or anything that causes any noticeable detractions to the audio. The glossy sheen is still present on all and there are no areas of dulling or groove wear. The records have received a moderate of amount plays commensurate with age, and are in a well above average condition, and have clean grooves.
The records lay completely flat on the turntable.
Robust Sixties vinyl's weighing at around 160 grams each.
Labels are all Very Good/ Very Good Plus. All text is clear and bright, the perimeter area around the spindle location is neat with no wear and there are no spindle line traces that are obtrusive to the appearance of the labels. There are just one or two very fine light hairline marks on two of the labels that can be seen out of the centre ring area.
No handwriting, no sticker or sticker residue and no marks.
Mother/ Stamps - Side 1: Mother 4 Stamper OH
- Side 2: Mother 3 Stamper GAT
- Side 3: Mother 1 Stamper GDL
- Side 4: Mother 4 Stamper GGH
The Audio:
The audio grades at Very Good Plus, very near Excellent across the discs. Both discs play through clearly on both sides, with no pops, no background noises such as crackle or hiss, and there are no skips/jumps or sticks. There are some audible ticks now and again, where to be expected i.e. the quieter parts on a couple of the tracks on a couple of the sides, side 4 has a rough scuff which causes a few more ticks, but on the majority the records plays very well without any static ticks, 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 are all from the very first stereo master recording and side 4 is from the second. The mother stamps are low and the the labels are the 2nd variation with 'An EMI Recording' text - this label was printed in the same month of November 1968 as the 1st variation type which omitted that text on one of the LP's for just a few weeks. The number on the sleeve is low 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.
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This LP will be securely delivered in a professional cardboard LP mailer with cardboard stifferners.
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.
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