Beatles Sgt Pepper 1st UK Mono *FOURTH PROOF* Patent Pending Complete *RARITY*
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My dad was a private collector, he collected thousands and thousands of records from 1950's to early 2000's, many are rarities, obscurities and some are unique, I am not a dealer, just selling the collection now he is unable to do so himself.
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The Beatles - SGT Pepper - Yellow and Black Parlophone labels - Mono - 1st UK Pressing - Very Rare 'Fourth Proof' Sample Sleeve Patents Pending – Rarer Wider Spine Variant (Almost all fourth proof copies have very thin spines, this copy has a much wider spine) - Red & White Swirl Inner
The Fourth Proof Sleeves were the first run off the press and were never meant to be sold to the public, very few of these 'proof' sleeves were sold and even fewer exist 50 years on, extremely collectable.
1967
XEX 637-1
XEX 638-1 (KT Tax Code Around spindle)
Both sides have quite a few faint whispy marks and light scratches/needle marks, nothing deep or feeling. There are also some extremely light whispy sleeve removal marks under strong artificial light. It has a Nice shine, Used condition and very much sold for the fourth proof sleeve.
PLAYTESTED and it plays really well, no skips, jumps or sticks, audio is still strong, some static/background more so in the quiet parts and some clicks in places, Plays much better than it looks.
Both Labels have some signs of spiders legs under strong light. Very clean labels, no wear or damage.
Front of sleeve is flat and clean with no rubbing, still has a nice shine. a few small creases around edges and 4 thumbnails near opening edge, tiny laminate bubble bottom right corner. No wear to bottom edge or top edge. Opening edge has some light handling wear. Corners have some wear (mainly bottom right and top left). Wider than standard Spine is still pretty crisp and fully Readable, a little creasing, Back is the same as the front with very light rubbing near top. Inside is crisp, clean and glossy, no damage to flipbacks, on small crease on the left – Garrod & Lofthouse Patent Pending Fourth Proof sleeve.
Red & White Swirl Inner has splits to both sides and split to bottom edge, no writing, lightly discoloured
Original Cutout Card Is Perfect
A Mega Rare and Very hard to find LP Record in Used Condition, Sleeve is Great.
NO POSTAGE/SHIPPING TO ROMANIA
With that said....many rarities will be listed, some fair condition some near mint.
Any questions...please ask.
Premium quality cruciform record mailers will be used with 2 sheets of additional cardboard.
All records are sent Sign For, Tracked and Insured for the purchase price, The postage cost reflects this.
I combine shipping costs after the auction for multiple purchases.
UK - £5.00 2nd Class Sign For
Europe - £13.00 International Tracked and Signed
Rest Of World - £16.00 International Tracked and Signed
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