NON UK BUYERS PLEASE NOTE MY COMMENTS REGARDING INTERNATIONAL MAIL BELOW...RETURNS POLICY ONLY APPLICABLE TO UK..RETURNS OUTSIDE UK BUYER WILL HAVE TO COVER ALL POSTAGE COSTS Furthermore international bidders please also note that due to ebays new "buyer protection " policy many sellers now refuse to sell internationally anymore. I am not one of those sellers yer but please note I do now reserve the right to refuse to complete a sale to any international bidder that may have low or bad feedback or for any other reason and this is especially so if the item sells for over GBP 100, like I say this is purely a result of ebay/paypals new policy that make it now even harder for sellers to  trade safely internationally. Please bare this in mind if you win an item but find that it has been offered first instead to a domestic UK Bidder.

FOR 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. 

ALL MY RECORDS ARE USUALLY SOLD ON VISUAL GRADINGS ONLY, THEREFORE, WITH THE SINGULAR EXCEPT ION OF THOSE RARE OCCASSIONS WHERE I DO STATE THEY HAVE BEEN PLAY GRADED, AS ALL DISCS ARE 2ND HAND ANY PLAYING DEFECTS ARE THEREFORE CAVIAT EMPTOR AND SO NON REFUNDABLE. I ONLY REFUND  WHERE AN ACTUAL GRADING OF MINE IS DISPUTED

STUNNING AND IMPOSSIBLE LIKE THIS! FINAL UPGRADE WITH NO EVIDENCE OF ANY KIND OF PLAY WHATSOVEVER AND A SLEEVE LAMINATION THAT SHINES LIKE NEW!!

AN EXTREMELY COLLECTABLE UK EXPORT APPLE CPCS PRESSING BUT WHAT MAKES THIS LOT PARTICULARLY SPECIAL IS IT'S  STUNNING CONDITION...THIS IS A FINAL UPGRADE LOT AND WHETHER UNPLAYED OR NOT AS YOU WILL STRUGGLE TO FIND ANOTHER BETTER, SIMPLE AS THAT!

THIS IS A EXPORT  CPCS  LP. TO MY KNOWLEDFGE EMI IN THE UK PRESSED 4 US LP'S IN THE UK FOR EXPORT AND THIS WAS THE 4TH AND ALL WERE DESIGNATED WITH A CPCS CAT NUMBER (THE C STANDS FOR " CAPIITOL " AND THE FACT THAT THESE WERE THE CAPITOL US MIXES AND NOT THE UK ONES ).

IN 1970 EMI IN THE UK DECIDED TO PROCUDE THIS US LP IN THE UK FOR SALE OVERSEAS AS THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY DONE THE THREE TIMES BEFORE  ON "THE BEATLES 2ND ALBUM" , "THE BEATLES VI" AND " SOMETHING NEW" 

THESE EXPORT LP'S WERE THEN SENT ABOAD ALTHOUGH SOME DID STILL SURFACE NEW IN SOME UK RECORD SHOPS.

OF THOSE THAT WERE SOLD IN THE UK " HEY JUDE " WAS THE MOST COMMON AND WAS IN MORE OR LESS CONTINUALY PRODUCTION FROM 1970 UNTIL ALMOST UP UNTIL THIS LP WAS FINALLY GIVEN A PROPER PARLOPHONE RELEASE IN 1979.

THIS HOWEVER IS THE EXPORT PRESS ON THE UK APPLE. THESE EXPORT PRESSINGS CAME IN SEVERAL KNOWN VARIANTS, THE FIRST ON THE DARK GREEN APPLE LABEL FAMOUSLY HAS THE " PAPER BACK WRITER " AND " REVOLUTIONS " ERRORS WHICH WAS SWIFTLY CORRECTED. THEN IN 1973 A " LIGHT APPLE VARIAITION WAS PRODUCED AND THERE ARE SOME PYE CONTRACT PRESSINGS ON HEAVY PRE-OIL CRISIS VINYL BUT MOST ARE STANDARD EMI APPLE PRESSINGS ON LIGHTER VINYL AND ARE PROBABLY THE MOST COMMON VARIANT. 

THIS IS AN EXAMPLE THE LATTER VARIANT BUT ALTHOUGH IT IS THE MOST COMMON OF ALL THE VARIANTS IT IS STILL A VERY RARE RECORD THAT WAS PRODUCED IN TINY NUMBERS IN COMPARISON TO A STANDARD LP RELEASE. WHATS MORE THE CONDITION OF THIS COPY IS JUST STUNNING, THE WINNING BIDDER WILL CONSIDER THEMSELVES PROUD TO BE IT'S NEW KEEPER ASSUMING YOU CAN KEEP IT OUT OF THE HANDS OF A DEALER !

For Auction here is the UK EXPORT LP ''  HEY JUDE  " 

ARTIST:  THE BEATLES

MONO/STEREO: STEREO

Cat. No : CPCS 106

LABEL: APPLE  

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: 1970 (THIS COPY APPROX 1973/4)

MATRICIES: -1 -1

MOTHERS/STAMPERS  3 RG   ? GN

VINYL WEIGHT: 120g

THE CONDITION

SLEEVE: ALMOST PERFECT, NEAR MINT WITH RAZOR SHARP OPENINGS AND A HIGH GLOSS TO THE LAMINATION THAT CAN ONLY MEAN IT HAS BEEN COCOONED FOR MOST OF ITS 35 YEAR LIFE. ONLY A HINT OF RINGWARE, SIMPLY STUNNING! 

VINYL :  AGAINT NEAR PERFECT,  BEARLY EVEN THE ODD WHISPY BAG REMOVAL MARK, EVEN UNDER A BRIGHT LIGHT, CAN BE DETECTED NOT FAR OFF NEAR MINT SIDE TWO WITH JUST  ONE VISABLE NON FEELABLE SURFACE MARK OF ABOUT A COUPLE OF CM'S ON SIDE ONE BUT STILL IS AS CLOSE TO MINT AS YOU WILL COULD DREAM OF SEEING!!

LABELS:  NO EVIDENCE OF PLAY, NO SPINDLE MARK NOTHING, NADA - JUST AS CLOSE TO MINT AS YOU WILL EVER SEE!

A RARE DISC ANYWAY BUT THEY SURE DON'T COME UP THAT OFTEN  LIKE THIS SO DON'T MISS OUT - GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS!

 (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 FOR A SINGLE LP IS USUALLY GBP 8.99 AND TO THE USA/REST OF THE WORLD GBP 12.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND 15.99 FOR A DOUBLE BASED ON A "DECLARED" VALUE OF UNDER GBP 50... 

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