THE BEATLES - WHITE ALBUM COMPLETE 1ST MONO LP NO EMI PMC 7067/ 8 VG/GOOD/VG+

	£		195
	$		258

THE BEATLES

'WHITE ALBUM'

ORIGINAL MONO PRESS LOW NUMBERED TOP LOADING SLEEVE

Catalogue no. PMC  7067/ 7068

Master Matrices XEX 709-1/ XEX 710-1/ XEX 711-1/ XEX 712-1

NOVEMBER 1968 PRESSING 

The Sleeve: 

Top loading sleeve in Good condition, laminated with shelf wear on corners and a split along spine edge although it is still held well against the front and back seams. There is storage wear at several points on bottom edge and opening side which are mainly lamination pressure line creases/ rubbing. All text is legible and pictorials clear and glossy and have held original colour well and look clean. Inside the gatefold and fold-over's are Very Good, looking glossy and very clean with clear print and unblemished black & white square pictorials of each band member. A couple of light creases near the top corners where records have been, but there are no marks or blemishes except at the bottom of the spine. The BEATLES logo on the front is embossed and raised as it was on all first issue sleeves, and the number is in the 7 digit format also embossed and raised.  

Very Low number 0012487.

The sleeve is firm and flat and intact, including the inner partition, separating the parts and keeping all held in well.

No handwriting, no handwriting imprints and no sticker or sticker residue anywhere.

Inner Sleeves:

Very Good Plus condition. The 1st pressings of the White Album came with plain black inner sleeves with the label window on one side only, and one bottom edge corner having a slightly wider slant than the opposite bottom corner. These inner sleeves rarely survive well and are usually missing or have ripped windows, and a lot of general fraying, the windows on these are not ripped at all. They have some record ring wear and light insertion creases.

No handwriting, no handwriting imprints,  no stickers or sticker residue.

Poster:

Excellent Condition. No blemishes, and no tears or rips, and has survived extremely well.

No handwriting or any blemishes.

The Four Portrait Photographs:

Excellent Condition, no corner creases, and hardly ever removed from the sleeve.

No handwriting or any blemishes.

The Vinyl:

The vinyl surfaces range are in Very Good Condition overall, some sides appear to be in better condition than others, and all have a thoroughly playable surface. The surfaces on both of the discs still reflect a glossy sheen with no dulling areas. Turned angled towards light there are superficial surface hairline marks and cleaning trails visible over the surface areas on both sides of both discs, and tend to be mainly gathered near the outer rims where they can be seen in normal light, but there are no scuffs or warps on the discs. There are no signs of groove wear on Sides 2, 3, & 4 which are completely smooth, but Side 1 has two stylus scratch marks that are feelable at certain points on their length, these scratches don't run down deep into the grooves. The records look to be in a well above average condition for a first pressing, with evidence of having received a fair amount of plays commensurate with age and popularity, but look respectable and have nothing worrying about them.

The records lay completely flat on the turntable.

Robust Sixties vinyl's weighing at around 160 grams.

Labels:

All text is clear and bold and background colour is all bright. There are some noticeable spindle line traces on each but hardly any wear to the perimeter of the spindle location area, very neat on most of the labels on this copy. Labels on sides 2, 3 and 4 are all in Very Good Plus condition, whereas the only label with any immediately noticeable spindle wear/ traces is Side 1 which is about a grade lower at Good Plus. (Side 1 and 2 labels have a slight misalignment from where the label was stamped on in the EMI factory - this is not wear on the spindle point). All sit perfectly on the spindle point on the turntable. 

No handwriting, no handwriting imprints, no stickers or sticker residue and no marks.

Mother/ Stamps   - Side 1: Mother 5 Stamper PR

                                 - Side 2: Mother 5 Stamper GDD

                                 - Side 3: Mother 7 Stamper GDL

                               - Side 4: Mother 2 Stamper HG

The Audio:

The audio grades at around Very Good Plus across the discs. Most tracks on both discs play through as Excellent on both sides, with no pops, no background noises such as crackle or hiss, and there are no skips/jumps or sticks. There are some mild audible ticks and light crackle which can be heard on some of the intro lead-in's and a few of the song tracks grading at around Very Good only, but most songs are clear of any noises. Side 1 has cyclic ticking as the stylus passes over one mark ... only particularly with the playback of Bungalow Bill can be this overcoming the audio, and may include skips towards the end of that track - depending on the sensitivity of equipment.

On the majority the records are play nicely without any obtrusive detractions, offering a crisp and strong original mono bass rendition of which many critics regard as The Beatles finest masterpiece.

The vinyl sides 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all from the very first mono master recording and none are from the second master recording. The mother stamps are quite low for the first pressing considering some of these 1st and  2nd mono's went into double digits. The labels are the 1st variation without the 'An EMI Recording' text - this was added to the label from late November 1968. Only the 1st variation type omitted that text and it is rarely found omitted on both labels.

The number on the sleeve is lower than most that are coming up for sale - it is well known that numbers 0000001-0600000 were used for 1st and 2nd pressings of the White Album. The Apples whites on the labels are the DARKER type. These factors indicate that this is undoubtably a 1st MONO Pressed in November of 1968 and how The Beatles 'White Album' appeared when it first hit the stores.

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This LP will be securely delivered in a professional cardboard LP mailer with cardboard stifferners. 

New plain black generic poly-lined inner sleeves will house the records as shown, and the originals will be placed separately.

A new protective PVC 180 gsm gatefold sleeve is included as shown to house the LP.

This White Album will be delivered by special delivery in the UK.

Overseas postage will be tracked & insured and a tracking number given.

To grade this record I am using the official grading system for collectable records from the Record Collector Magazine.

Happy to refund on return if not satisfied.