Beatles White Album UK 1968 PMC 7067/8 MONO 1/-1/-1/-1 Black IS VG BUDGET PRICE
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The Beatles
»White Album«
(14 detailed pictures on bottom of this listing)
U.K. November 1968 ~ PMC 7067/68 ~ MONO (!!)
"Sold in U.K. ..." on top of label ~ -1/-1/-1/-1
original Black inner sleeves ~ TOP Opener
copy number # 239,477 ~ Heavy Vinyl ~ EXCELLENT Sound
Disc 01 164 grams Weight Vinyl
Disc 02 168 grams beabay CID ORWHAMUK0002 (PICS 108, NPID 32) Overview Pressings 1st WW U.K., November 22, 1968, PMC 7067/68, Dark Green Apple
(WITH "Sold in U.K. subject...", withOUT "An E.M.I. Recording") 2nd November 27-30, 1968, PMC 7067/68, Dark Green Apple
(WITH "Sold in U.K. subject...", corrected "An E.M.I. Recording") 3rd July'81 thru Mid August'82, PMC 7067/68, Dark Green Apple
(NO "Sold in U.K...." on mid-top of label, WITH "An E.M.I. Recording", Label Variations A & B) 4th September 09, 2009, PMC 7067/68, Y/B Parlophone
2009 REMASTERS MONO Collection NOTE If you're not looged in thru the U.K. eBay site, you can watch all of our OTHER RECORDS here .
NOTES
Let's start here: Is this a first press? Yes, it is.
No, wait, a "labelist" would immediately intervene: A "true" first press was available in U.K. stores for barely a week. In an era, when pressings were shifted from Parlophone to Apple labels, initial mistakes were hardly avoidable. So it was here, when whoever was in charge "forgot" to mention ?An E.M.I. Recording? on any of the White Album's labels, thus constituting a clear copyrights violation. Only five days later, on November 27, 1968, officials corrected that error (most probably unaware of the fact to -by strictly adhering to the rules- just having created another collector's topic...)
So, it's up to you where you see yourself, whether record on auction here is a first press variation, or a 2nd press.
There's also double albums that carry one disc with ?An E.M.I. Recording? credit, the other one without. However, since it is impossible to prove that these two discs initially belonged to each other, collectors, at least in our experience, rather avoid such "variations".
Other identifiers: First label variation have ?33 1/3? text at the top line of the left side, as well ?Sold In U.K. subject to resale price conditions, see price lists? text on top of label. Publishing year printed with small copyright symbol (p). The labels are quite dark (although the actual shade of green varies greatly among copies).
This copy comes in a "true" mono cover, hence without mentioning of the word "stereo" at the upper right corner of the cover's reverse side. We point this out to avoid a wave of questions in our eBay messages inbox.
Copy up for auction here is a gatefold cover top opener, with its original black die cut inner sleeves.
This copy is numbered 239,477. And although the sequential numbering of the covers remains somewhat of a mystery, it appears that the first 300,000 numbers were generally held for mono covers, whereas numbers 300.001 thru 399,999 were quite obviously being used for mono and stereo. That means that they have both "PMC 7067/8 mono" and "PCS 7067/8 stereo" printed on its spine as well as the word "stereo" on the cover reverse side's upper right corner, no matter whether the discs held within were either mono or stereo.
400,001 to 600,000 were held for stereo. First 400,000 numbers were not used exclusively for mono covers. Numbers from ZERO to 50,000, and some numbers in the 200,000 to 300,000 range were (also) used for stereo covers paired with export albums having Parlophone labels. Some later mono covers were printed with numbers over 600,000, perhaps as high as 630,000.
Last but not least, every collector should bear in mind that numbering in U.K. and Germany were completely independent on each other, regarding both its sequencing and numbers themselves, hence both countries started with "000001". Moreover, the Germans' pressings were a) the worlwide first, starting to release roughly a month prior to the album's publication in the United Kingdom, and b) came as stereo mixes only. Provided the fact that the worldwide first press, Germany's stereo version, was sold at least 500,000 copies within the first months...
... you have a guess regarding the "real" number of any White Album published outside Germany. That is why we consider one of our German copies -#000364 for instance- a real "under 1,000" album. A thing discussed time and again with other collectors - but that's the good thing with "collecting the Fabs", it's more or less a "science", right?
We understand that our asking price is everything but a bargain (across all of our listings). However, we kindly ask you to refrain from sending "50-percent-offers". At beabay, we possess an in-depth knowledge of Beatles Vinyl, meaning our prices have been carefully chosen and placed. Dozens of international collectors trust in this and confirmed their 100-percent-satisfaction - some of them we copied later in this listing.
Please see grading details for a more elaborate description of the record's condition.
IMPORTANT NOTE for GERMAN BIDDERS: Please constact us before bidding, for otherwise we will remove your bid without prior notice. This is in view of constantly recurring problems, often caused by language. It's NOT an offense. Collectors want harmony and consensus, not trouble. Record Grading
Visual Grading Cover Front VG Cover Back VG- Cover Inside VG Inner Sleeve Disc 01 fair
Black Die-Cut Inner Sleeve Disc 02 fair
Black Die-Cut Label Side A VG+ Label Side B VG Label Side C VG+ Label Side D VG Vinyl Side A VG Vinyl Side B VG Vinyl Side C VG Vinyl Side D VG Audio Grading Side A EX Side B EX Side C EX Side D EX We use superb vinyl equipment with its heart being an Ortofon real-diamond system and gold plated contacts all around.
If available, audible checks were performed with an ORTOFON Pro-Ject Audio system connected to a DENON PMA 520-AE amplifier, using a Sennheiser 350 headset. Remarks As for the Cover and related issues, please refer to pictures provided right after, which are legal part of this auction.
Spine is hardly readable, but neither worn no split. It's simply the light-grey color of letters has faded over years.
Fully laminated cover, completely glossy. There is no seam split, or cuts. However, several light bruises, parts yellowing, scuffed edges. Clean insertion slot, no cuts. Also no writings on cover, neither front nor back nor inside. It's all in all still shiny with minimal signs of ring wear only.
Both labels are actually clean. There's no writings, initials, tears, or stains. However, labels have spindle hole wear, more or less, which is why grading isn't EX, or something.
Vinyl is shiny, both sides. Many hairlines, wipes, but strangely not affecting audio.
Basically, it's great sound, strong mono (with the White Album's special touch!), where quality is definitely EX. All four sides have clean starts (!).
Flaws: There's skip in Rocky Raccoon, and two, three bg clicks with Mother Nature's Sun. Except for that, no jumps, or skips. All four sides play completely thru.
Please keep in mind that an opinion is bound to be subjective. Refer to pictures, provided extensively.
For a short explanation of applied grading, please see remarks on every listing's bottom of page. We are back, and here's some of our Five-Stars eBay history: Australia, 1st MONO 1963
SOLD on March 02, 2014, to
£280.00 Germany, 1st EXPORT 1964
SOLD on November 04, 2013, to
£410.00 U.K., 1st "Jobete" 1963
SOLD on December 20, 2013, to
£240.00 Mexico, 1st MUSART 1964
SOLD on February 20, 2014, to
£90.00 U.K., 1st MONO 1968 # 4,406
SOLD on December 15, 2013, to
£1,350.00 DE, WW 1st EXPORT CH
SOLD on August 03, 2014, to
£100.00 DE, 4th UNPLAYED 1976
SOLD on August 22, 2014, to
£100.00 FR, 1st Horse Cover 1965
SOLD on August 24, 2014, to
£280.00 U.K., 1st -3N/-3N 1964
SOLD on July 20, 2014, to
£90.00 DE, 1st EXPORT 1964
SOLD on October 13, 2013, to
£450.00 Collectors from these Countries trust us
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1st Class Packaging
We are Collectors, hence every record is stored (and will be sent) in a sophisticated way. Many experienced collectors were thrilled by our unique, bullet-proof "packing technicque". Original cover, inner sleeve(s), prospective inserts, and/or whatever may come across, are stored separately. The vinyl sits in a neutral antistatic, padded inner sleeve, which is housed in a stable, neutral cardboard cover. Package is protected by one (or more) transparent plastic sleeves. Finally, all items are being wrapped with thick bubble foil and go to a professional record mailer, which is then being properly sealed with water-resistant tape.
(PLEASE NOTE that pictured record is an EXAMPLE only. It is NOT the item up for auction. Thank you.)
- Grading Every record has been carefully graded visually by ourselves. Most records are audio-graded, too. We grade NM/NM-, EX+/EX/EX-, and VG+/VG/VG-.
- Shipping & Handling is £ 5, provided you live on planet earth. To us, it doesn't matter where records finds a new home, Paris, Tokyo, NYC, or Melbourne.
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A Note On Returns / Return Policy
We are two (crazy?) regular average women (Ginger & Fleur Isabell) who love Beatles, thus collecting their records, we're no dealers. We buy vinyl to acquire better copies of what we have already, then selling our second, third, fourth copies. We are classic collectors and hence describe and grade what we sell to our best knowledge, possessing a very high, sophisticated level of knowledge, in particular regarding European records.
If -for whatever reason- our description doesn't turn out to be appropriate, like, for instance, a song skips or jumps, vinyl isn't flat as assured -these types of "error"-, we certainly accept a return (at buyer's expense), for a collector's satisfaction is of utmost importance to us. That certainly happened already. We know that nobody buys a record from us "just for fun". However, as a very basic rule, all of our sales are personal und final.
ALL WE TRY TO AVOID IS TO SEND RARE, VALUABLE VINYL AROUND THE GLOBE "IN VAIN", JUST TO SATISFY A PERSON'S CURIOSITY, FOR EVERY "ROUND-TRIP" IS A HUGE RISK EXPOSING THE RECORD.
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