The Beatles - White Album - UK 1968 1st *STEREO* Press Apple Records LP EX+
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Description
THE BEATLES - 'WHITE ALBUM'
This UK 1st STEREO pressing double album dates from late 1968 on the Apple Records label: PCS 7067/8
All labels include the 'Sold in UK...' and 'An EMI Recording' texts
Disc 1: PCS 7067
Matrix numbers: YEX 709-1 & YEX 710-1
Stamper codes: 1/RG & 1/TT
Vinyl weight: 147g
Disc 2: PCS 7068
Matrix numbers: YEX 711-2 & YEX 712-1
Stamper codes: 4/GPH & 7/GMM
Vinyl weight: 149g
Housed within a fully laminated, inner-flipback 'Garrod & Lofthouse' printed gatefold 'stereo' cover numbered: No.0566905
Complete with 4 colour portrait photos, UK printed poster & original black inner-sleeves
CONDITION
Disc
Labels: EXCELLENT +
All are clean & unblemished with no more than a small handful of light spindle trails around each unworn centre hole.
Visual: EXCELLENT +
Exceptionally clean & unworn deep-gloss playing surfaces which apart from a few extremely faint paper scuffs are totally unmarked in strong daylight. Close examination directly beneath my unforgiving halogen desk lamp does little more than highlight these harmless minor blemishes and add only a sparkling rainbow shine.
Sound Quality: EXCELLENT +
This set has clearly been little played and there is no evidence of any groove/playwear anywhere. My playcheck detected only a touch of low-level vinyl background on a few of the quieter passages and between tracks but this is present on nearly all copies. There were certainly no clicks, pops or any other audible distractions throughout either disc.
Cover: EXCELLENT
A clean & strong example with some light age/storage wear but no significant or major faults throughout.
The front panel is clean & unmarked with the laminate fully intact around the raised wording and a full and unworn number. There is a slight disc impression from storage but no 'thumbnails' or any other wrinkles of any kind - even to the spine. There are two small 'pushes' to the front opening edge but they are overall are sharp and unworn.
Both panels on the inside of the gatefold are pristine.
The rear panel is the equal of the front with the small 'stereo' indicator still present in the upper right corner.
The spine laminate has a few small splits along its length but the wording is covered and unworn both ends. All seams of both pockets are smooth & unstressed.
Photos: MINT
Poster: EXCELLENT
Clean & unhung with the only fault being a 2cm tear to one edge.
Inner-sleeves: EXCELLENT +
Clean, flat & uncreased with no tears or wear to the central windows or upper edges and no seam splits.
- Our grading is strict & conservative grading in strong daylight & directly beneath a halogen desk lamp to UK 'RECORD COLLECTOR' standards.
- Each record is professionally & securely packaged in custom-made record mailing boxes with the disc removed from the cover.
- This item is located in and will be shipped from AUSTRIA. Tracked airmail postage to UK addresses will be 12 GBP**
- We have play-graded this record on an EMT 950 transcription turntable fitted with a 'TSD 15' cartridge.
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