Donovan A GIFT FROM A FLOWER TO A GARDEN UK 2LP MINT

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DONOVAN  - A GIFT FROM A FLOWER TO A GARDEN

SERIOUSLY RARE UNPLAYED BOX SET. JUST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS

1968 (40 YEARS OLD) VAULT CONDITION MINT SET, AND WITH A NEAR MINT BOX

• CAT: PYE NSPL2000/1/2
• MATRIX: NSPL2000A-1G / B-1G / C-1G / D-1G
• FIRST PRESS INDICATORS

•  THE SECRET FANTASY OF EVER RECORD COLLECTOR IS TO BE ABLE TO TRAVEL BACK IN TIME TO THE DAY THAT RARE RECORDS WERE RELEASED AND THEN BUY THEM AND KEEP THEM IN PRISTINE CONDITION UNLIKE WHAT THEY DID WITH THE COPIES THEY ORIGINALLY BOUGHT AND PLAYED TO DEATH. SOUND FAMILIAR?
• IF ONLY!
• WELL I HAVE HERE A SMALL BATCH OF RECORDS THAT HAVE BEEN PRESERVED IN ABSOLUTELY MINT CONDITION, FROM THE SLEEVES THROUGH TO THE VINYL,
• THIS ONE BEING UNPLAYED IS JUST AN AMZING FIND

THE RECORD LABELS

THE LIGHT BLUE PYE LABELS ARE ABSOLUTELY IMMACULATE. THE DELICATE PASTEL SHADE HAS ABSOLUTELY NO MARKS, STAINS OR WEAR OF ANY KIND. THE COLOUR FULLY EXTENDS INTO THE UNWORN SPINDLE HOLES AND THERE ARE NO SPIDER LINES ON ANY OF THE LABELS. THIS HAS JUST NOT BEEN PLAYED.

THE BLUE PYE LABEL IS VERY DELICATE AS I PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED. TAKE A LOOK AT THE OTHER DONOVAN ALBUM I HAVE ON AUCTION AT THIS TIME, AND WHILST IT PLAYS TO A MINT MINUS STATE IT HAS BEEN PLAYED A COUPLE OF TIMES, ANDIF YOU LOOK AT THE LABEL YOU WILL SEE THE EVIDENCE OF SPIDER LINES CLOSE TO THE HOLE, AND THESE WERE CREATED VERY EASILY ON THIS MOST FRAGILE LABEL. THESE LABELS ON THIS BOX SET ARE JUST PRISTINE. YOU WILL NEVER FIND BETTER

IT HASN'T BEEN PLAYED. HOW FANTASTIC IS THAT?

THE VINYL

BOTH VINYLS ARE MINT. 100% UNMARKED PRISTINE BEAUTIFULLY GLOSSY ORIGINAL 1968 STEREO DISCS. I CAN SAY NO MORE THAN THEY ARE MAGNIFICENT

PLAYING THE RECORD

I CAN INCLUDE AS MANY WORDS AS I WANT BUT ONLY WHEN YOU HEAR THE RECORD WILL YOU TRULY BELIEVE THAT THIS IS INDEED IN MINT CONDITION.

I WAS IN TWO MINDS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT TO PLAY THESE LABUMS, BUT IN THE END CURIOUSITY GOT THE BETTER OF ME, BUT I HAVE ONLY LISTENED TO THE FIRST 90 SECONDS OF EACH OF THE 4 SIDES, BECAUSE I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO MAR A 100% UNPLAYED 40 YEAR OLD SET, BUT I FIGURED THAT AS A POTENTIAL BIDDER YOU MIGHT WANT TO HEAR THE QUALITY

THEREFORE I HAVE INCLUDED 4 SHORT EXAMPLES OF JUST HOW GREAT THIS RECORD SOUNDS. PLEASE CLICK ON THE MEDIA PLAYER AT THE TOP OF THE LISTING TO HEAR IT. I ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT THE INTRODUCTION (RUN IN GROOVE) IS A REALLY GOOD REFLECTION OF THE OVERALL QUALITY OF THE DISC. , AND SO I HAVE GIVEN YOU THE RUN INS TO ALL FOUR SIDES AND THE FIRST 90 SECONDS OF EACH INITIAL TRACK/

THE ONLY OTHER THING WORTH STATING ABOUT THE VINYL AND YOU WILL HEAR THE TRUTH ANYWAY, IS THAT THE ONE PLAY WAS CONDUCTED ON A DECENT SYSTEM THAT WAS A UNWORN STYLUS, THIS ENSURES THAT THE SOUND IS AS CLEAR TODAY AS THE DAY IT WAS PRESSED AND NOT AFFECTED IN ANY WAY BY AN OLD OR HEAVY STYLUS WHICH WOULD HAVE CAUSED GROOVE WEAR EVEN ON A ONCE PLAYED ALBUM

I HAVE NO HESITATION IN GRADING THIS DISC MINT .

THE SLEEVE

THE OVERALL GRADING OF THE SLEEVE IS MINT MINUS

WELL OF COURSE THIS IS A BOX NOT A SLEEVE, AND AS SUCH PRONE TO SPLITS ON CORNERS, COLOUR LOSS AND SEVERE MARKS. THIS SUPERB MINT EXAMPLE IS IN ABSOLUTELY THE BEST CONDITION YOU COULD EVER WISH TO FIND. TAKING THE LID FIRST. THIS IS USUALLY FOUND WITH SEVERE COLOIR LOSS TO THE LILAC AREA, AND ON THIS EXAMPLE ID ID VERY VERY MILD, FAR FROM THE TATTY EXAMPLES THAT ARE USUALLY OFFERED UP. ALSO THE ORIGINAL CIRCULAR STICKER IS STILL IN PLACE TOP LEFT, WHICH IS USUALLY MISSING. THE CORNERS ARE UNSPLIT, AND ONLY HAVE THE LIGHTEST BIT OF COLOUR LOSS ON THE ANGLES. INSIDE THE LID IS THE GREEN LYRIC INNER WHICH IS PROPERLY STUCK TO THE LID. IT IS IMMACULATE. THE BASE LIKEWISE HAS THE GREEN PICTURE STUCK FIRMLY IN PLACE. AGAIN THE CORNERS OF THE BOX ARE PRISTINE AND IN THIS CASE NO COLOUR LOSS AT ALL. THE BOTTOM SURFACE AMAZINGLY IS ALSO UNBLEMISHED WITH A PERFECT AND PRISTINE PISTURE OF DONOVAN AND MAHARISHI MARESH YOGI. AS YOU MAY KNOW DONOVAN WAS PRESENT AT THE TIME THAT THE BEATLES WERE IN INDIA AND MET HIS HOLINESS AT THE SAME TIME. THE BEATLES WENT ON TO RECORD THE WHITE ALBUM IN 1968, AND THIS WAS DONOVANS RECORDING FROM THE SAME TIME.

INSIDE THE BOX THE ORANGE FOLDER IS IMMACULTE AND 100% MINT, AS ARE THE TWELVE INSERTS INSIDE. THIS IS INDEED A PRISTINE SET

THE RECORDS ARE HOUSED IN THE ORIGNAL GREASEPROOF LINED INNER SLEEVES WHICH ARE ALSO IN MINT CONDITION

YOU WILL NEVER FIND A BETTER EXAMPLE OF THIS SET ANYWHERE

SO ONCE AGAIN THIS IS A VERY VERY HIGH GRADE COLLECTIBLE ALBUM IN THE MOST SUPERB CONDITION IMAGINABLE, SO BID WITH CONFIDENCE, AND GOOD LUCK IF YOU DECIDE TO GO FOR IT

GARRY