THE BEATLES SGT PEPPER RARE 'FOURTH PROOF' UK 1ST PRESS MONO TOP AUDIO NEAR MINT

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Jan 19, 2014 Sold Date

Jan 9, 2014 Start Date

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UNTIL THE END OF JANUARY, I'LL BE LISTING RECORDS FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTION. THIS IS MY PRIDE AND JOY COLLECTION OF TOP CONDITION MAINLY UK 1ST PRESSINGS INCLUDING GEMS SUCH AS THE BEATLES, BEE GEES, BLUR, STONE ROSES, THE KINKS, BOB DYLAN, VELVET UNDERGROUND, BOWIE, THE WHO, FLOYD, ZAPPA, SIMON & GARFUNKEL...AND MANY MORE.
HERE WE HAVE AN AMAZING TOP COPY OF THE BEATLES 8TH STUDIO ALBUM, SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND. THIS IS A UK MONO 1ST PRESSING FROM JUNE 1967 AND IS HOUSED IN THE MUCH SOUGHT AFTER AND RARE 'FOURTH PROOF' SLEEVE.

This unique version of this album was effectively a pre production sleeve, the first three ‘Proof’ sleeves never saw the light of day, this ‘Fourth Proof’sleeve was passed around at EMI for final agreement. Never meant to be released, but a small number of these sleeves found their way onto the public market. As these were ‘Proof’ sleeve copies they should have NEVER have left the printers.

There are a number of unique differences from the final production sleeve:

1. printed ‘Fourth Proof’, ‘AR’ and ‘D 13217’ text printed on the top flipback on the inner gatefold sleeve. There is a story about this, the old style of ‘visual’ flipbacks were on the way out and the sleeve for the latest Beatles LP, Sgt Pepper was to feature the new ‘hidden inner’ flipback design, therefore it was thought that the above text would NOT be seen. Apparently the ‘AR’ stands for the designers initials and the ‘D 13217’ is the internal catalogue number for the printers of the sleeve, ‘Garrod and Lofthouse’.

2. The rear of the sleeve features the text ‘Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd Patents Pending’, it is only a very small number of very early Pepper Mono sleeves that have this additional text, ‘Patents Pending’. The sleeve normally just states ‘Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd’ (G&L). By the time of the official launch of Sgt Pepper in June 1967, G&L had got their ‘Patents’ confirmed and this text ‘Patents Pending’ was removed from the rear of the sleeve.

3. Georges jacket is Pink instead of Red, as on the standard sleeves.

4. Johns jacket is Yellow instead of Green, as on the standard sleeves.

MATRIX NUMBERS
SIDE 1 : XEX - 637 - 1 SIDE 2 : XEX - 638 - 1
MOTHER / STAMPER
SIDE 1 : 3 / A SIDE 2 : 9 / R 7 D H M H
LABELS : BOTH LABELS ARE CLEAN AND FRESH WITH NO WRITING OR MARKS. SIDE 1 DISPLAYS SPINDLE LINES, SOME OF WHICH EXTEND TO THE 4 O CLOCK AREA. SIDE 2 DISPLAYS MINIMAL AND VERY LIGHT SPINDLE LINES
VINYL : BOTH SURFACES LOOK BEAUTIFUL WITH A SHINE AND DEEP LUSTRE. THE VINYL HAS BEEN WELL CARED FOR. WHILST THERE ARE SOME WISPY SLEEVE REMOVAL LINES OR HAIRLINE MARKS ON BOTH SIDES, THEY BOTH PLAY THROUGH BEAUTIFULLY WITH NO CRACKLE, CLICKS. POPS OR JUMPS OF ANY KIND. EVEN LISTENING INTENTLY AT VOLUME TO FIND ANY KIND OF BACKGROUND NOISE, I'M STRUGGLING. AN ABSOLUTELY SUPERB COPY. EASILY GRADES AS NEAR MINT.
SLEEVE : ONE OR TWO LAMINATE CREASES ON BOTH FRONT AND REAR OF THE SLEEVE, NO LAMINATE LIFTING. VERY SLIGHT RINGWEAR BEGINNING TO SHOW ON THE REAR UNDER LIGHT. INSIDE THE GATEFOLD THERE IS NO LAMINATE LIFTING AND AGAIN, ONE OR TWO TINY LAMINATE CREASES ON EITHER SIDE, NOTHING WORRYING. STILL HAS THE CRACKLE AS YOU OPEN THE GATEFOLD. BOTH FLIPBACKS ENTIRELY INTACT. BOTTOM EDGE OF SLEEVE UNWORN, TOP CENTRE OF SLEEVE HAS 1" SLIGHT WEAR SHOWING AND TWO OF THE FOUR CORNERS HAVE SLIGHT BUMPING. THE SPINE IS QUITE WORN THOUGH WITH THE WEAR RESTRICTED TO WHERE THE WRITING IS WHICH IS UNREADABLE. EITHER SIDE OF THE WRITING HAS NORMAL WEAR WITH THE LAMINATE PRETTY MUCH JUST INTACT. DECENT ENOUGH SLEEVE BUT FOR THE SPINE WEAR SO GRADES AS G+
INNER SLEEVE : ORIGINAL 'FOOLS' RED AND WHITE HAS NO WRITING BUT IS QUITE WORN. ONE ENTIRE EDGE IS SPLIT. HAS THE 'MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN' & 'PATENTS APPLIED FOR' SO IS THE FIRST PRESS INNER. GRADES AS G-
CUT-OUTS : ORIGINAL & INTACT, ONLY A COUPLE OF SMALL CREASES. GRADES EX.
PLEASE CONTACT ME IF MORE PHOTOS ARE REQUIRED
I GRADE ACCORDING TO RECORD COLLECTOR STANDARDS AND TRY TO BE AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE PLAYING ON A TECHNICS SL-1200MK5 USING ORTOFON CARTRIDGE AND STYLUS WEIGHTED AT 1.5 g.

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THESE ARE THE POSTAGE COSTS FOR THIS ITEM
UK : SPECIAL NEXT DAY DELIVERY £10 EUROPE : AIRSURE £15 R.O.W : AIRSURE £18 PLEASE WAIT FOR FINAL INVOICE FROM ME.
ALL RECORDS SENT IN PROFESSIONAL MAILERS WITH TWO STIFFENERS AND DISCS REMOVED FROM SLEEVE.

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