BEATLES UK – Original REVOLVER Stereo RARE E J Day sleeve.

	£		50
	$		66

BEATLES UK – Original REVOLVER Stereo RARE  E J Day sleeve.

1966 PCS 7009 – Original Black and Yellow Parlophone Labels.

A  UK  Stereo copy with a very hard to find Stereo sleeve made by E J Day.

The sleeves of the first Beatle album ‘Please Please Me’ were nearly all printed by the company ‘E J Day’.  But by late 1963 the printers ‘Garrod and Lofthouse’ began to  print most of the Beatles album sleeves.  By mid 1964 there were virtually no sleeves being printed by E  J Day.  This is apparently due to the fact that in Mid 1964 the printing company ‘E J Day’ went through new management. Interesting that the company emerged into 1966 and began once more to print Beatle album sleeves.  When Stereo copies of this album do appear the sleeve will be printed by ‘Garrard and Lofthouse’.  So while it is not uncommon to find a Mono Revolver E J Day sleeve,  it is extremely RARE to find a Stereo flipback E J Day Revolver sleeve.

This copy features:

1. the record label on side two has the spelling of ‘Doctor Robert’,  but on the sleeve this track is spelt as  ‘ Dr  Robert’.   Apparently John Lennon thought that the spelling of ‘Doctor’ should be used so the earlier ‘Dr’ spelling labels were soon replaced with the spelling of ‘Doctor’.  Curious that the spelling on the sleeve was never corrected to the  ‘Doctor’ spelling !

2.  very early mother / stampers of :  ‘ 1  OP ’ on side one,

3.  there is an additional ‘dot’ that appears in the line of text,  ie it reads   ‘Sold in .U.K.’  etc on the label on side one.

CONDITION:

THE MAIN SLEEVE: is in good++ condition, the front of the sleeve is  laminated.  The  rear features the original tri-flipback design.  The spine is in very good++  condition and all the text is readable.  There  are  NO splits, stains, pen writing,  stickers or  sticker residue on the sleeve.  There is a 20mm tear to the middle front side opening edge and the sleeve shows some general wear of its 46 years,  but a good complete example of such a RARE sleeve.

THE INNER SLEEVE:  is in very good condition,  it is an EMI ‘Use Emitex’ sleeve,  I am not sure if this is  the original  inner sleeve as  most copies of this album from this period came with a  plain white ‘Patents applied for’ text sleeve.  Some very early copies of Revolver could have been issued with the EMI ‘Use Emitex’ sleeves !.  There are NO splits,  stickers or  sticker residue.  There are two 10mm tears on one side around the ‘die cut hole’.

THE VINYL:  is in near very good condition, the album has been well played.  It is made of the period thick, heavy vinyl.   

The matrix are:   YEX  605 - 1  and   YEX 606 – 1,

The Mother/Stampers are:   ‘  1     O P ’ very early    and    ‘  3   O G  ’,

THE AUDIO:  is very good,  it plays with some crackle and some ‘clicks’  but  still sounds great, so still a great playing copy. The record lays flat on the turntable and plays well without the needle sticking or jumping.  

THE LABELS:  are in very good  condition and as mentioned side one  has  an additional ‘dot’ that appears in the line of text, ‘Sold in .U.K.’  etc.  Side two has the spelling of ‘ Doctor ’ Robert. The letters ‘ K T ’ are embossed around the spindle hole on side one.  The labels are free from any pen writing,  sticker residue or stickers.

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