ULTRA RARE 4TH PROOF SLEEVED COPY, INCREDIBLY SORT AFTER ....

FOR BIDDERS OUTSIDE UK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT...  non uk bidders please read my notes about international postage below.....returns policy only applies to UK outside of UK buyer has to cover the return postage! FOR INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT due to ebays revised " buyer " protection policy even more sellers will start to refuse to sell internationally. I however will still sell internationally but i reserve the right to not to complete any international transaction if the buyer has any bad or witheld feedback or for any other reason that I choose and this is especially so for items that sell for near to GBP 150 or higher. So if you are an international bidder and win one of my auctions and then find I have completed the transaction elsewhere this will be because the new ebay/paypal policy now makes it almost impossible for sellers to sell safely overseas, thank you

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.

BEATLES COLLECTORS WILL NEED NO INTRODUCTION TO THIS PARTICULAR RARITY. ALTHOUGH IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT ONLY A SMALL BATCH OF THESE " PROOF " COPIES WITH " FOURTH PROOF " & " AR D1321 " ON THE INSIDE ON THE REAR FLIPBACK,  ESCAPED FROM THE PRINTERS AND BY MISTAKE MADE IT TO HAYES TO BE MARRIED UP TO THE DISCS AND FROM THERE ESCAPED INTO THE SHOPS. HOWEVER WHAT ISN'T CERTAIN IS WHAT THEIR PLACE IS IN THE STORY OF SGT PEPPER RELEASES.

MANY PEOPLE THINK THAT THESE WERE THE VERY EARLIEST SLEEVES PRINTED, HOWEVER IT IS MY PERSONAL BELIEF THAT THE WIDESPINE SLEEVES WERE THE FIRST. WHEN IT WAS THEN DECIDED TO REPLACE THE WIDESPINES VERY EARLY ON DUE TO " COMPLAINTS FROM RECORD SHOPS DUE TO STORAGE ISSUES " WITH THE MORE COMMON THIN SPINE SLEEVES, THAT THESE FOURTH PROOFS WERE ACTUALLY THE PROOFS FOR THE NEW THIN SPINES AS THE EXSISTANCE OF A WIDESPINE 4TH PROOF HAS YET TO BE VERIFIED.

HOWEVER THE FACT THAT ALL THESE FOURTH PROOFS CARRY THE PATENTS PENDING TEXT IS CAUSE FOR FURTHER CONFUSION AS IS THE FACT THAT THERE IS ALSO ANOTHER RARE MONO PATENT PENDING SLEEVE VARIANT WITHOUT THE FOURTH PROOF!

SO WE'LL PROBABLY NEVER KNOW THE FULL STORY, AL WE DO KNOW IS THAT THESE SLEEVES ARE INCREDIBLY RARE AND HIGHLY SORT AFTER IN ANY CONDITION!

DOMESTIC DISPATCH COSTS  FOR ALL ITEMS THAT SELL FOR ABOVE GBP 9.99 WILL BE BY SIGNED FOR DELIVERY AND ARE GBP 3.99 FOR A SINGLE LP, THIS IS TO PREVENT FRAUDULANT CLAIMS OF NON RECEIPT IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS THEN PLEASE FEEL FREE NOT TO BID ! INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE SEE MY NOTES BELOW 

For Auction here is the UK LP ''  SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND " 

ARTIST:  THE BEATLES

MONO/STEREO: MONO

Cat. No : PMC 7027

LABEL: PARLOPHONE  

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: 1967

MATRICIES:  -1 -1

VINYL WEIGHT: 140g

THE CONDITION

SLEEVE: RARE FOURTH PROOF SLEEVE IS A NICE SOLID COPY WITH NO MAJOR FLAWS BUT WITH WARE TO THE SPINE WHICH CARRIES A TAPED REPLACEMENT WHICH CAN EASILY JUST BE REMOVED. GRADES VG-

VINYL: NUMEROUS MARKS SO IN GOOD CONDITION

LABELS: NO WRITINGS OR LABELS GRADES, IN GOOD SHAPE VG+ TO EX-

 (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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