SEALED The Beatles Introducing SR1062 Stereo Vee-Jay LP

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Up for auction is this sealed copy of Introducing...The Beatles, Vee-Jay SR-1062...with the well-known ROSE RECORDS store sticker intact, showing proper age toning and wear.  The spine is printed, with a series of dots, as shown.  It reads top to bottom: "SR 1062 (dot) Vee Jay (dot) Introducing The Beatles (dot) Vee Jay (dot)".  I grade all my vinyl seriously, according to Goldmine's scale.  I've been buying, selling, and spinning vinyl for about 15 years now, but I'm no expert on these sealed Beatles LPs. 

This is recently out of a pack-rat's estate in a blue-collar neighborhood of Chicago.  Several other sealed LPs, of differing genres (yawn), were found in the boxes with this one...all were 60's-era recordings/pressings, but nothing worthy of buying.  Please review my photos, read the description, and let me know if you need additional information and/or photos.  If the LP jacket looks original, and requires deeper investigation of the labels due to potential rarity and value, I'll consider slitting the shrink and adding photos of the labels...but I'll require a consensus of you expert collectors first.  Having no idea if this is original, a later pressing, or whatever, I offer the following for you to base your opinion on:

The shrink shows average wear, consistent with 40-odd years of storage.  The left side of front has a cellophane seam, as does the extreme right side.  The backside has a seam along the bottom, all are as indicated.  The front shows a ridge/bump indicating a folded flap of the cardboard jacket, on the interior...and I can easily feel it with my finger.  I can also feel a flap on the top of the jacket.  Sizes are unknown without opening this, however.  The upper-right edge of jacket has a factory oddity where the cutting machine left a little rounded protrusion, as shown.  The shrink is open at the lower left corner, along the seam...due to tightness, age, storage, handling, etc., but the remainder is fully sealed.   Top slick was pasted slightly left-of-center...which is why the Vee-Jay oval logo is a little left, and the spine markings are a little low.  Rear slick has a machine-fold blemish at upper right, it's still intact though.  Slight warping is evident, as if it was standing slightly off vertical, in a box, for many years.

The overall weight of the vinyl and jacket is nice and hefty.  In other words, as an example, it's more hefty like an RCA Victor "Long Play" of the 1960s versus an RCA Dynaflex pressing of the early 1970s.  I'd grade the cover at a weak NM.  There are no seam splits or creases.  No significant ring wear.  Good corners.  Seams have a few random bumps...mostly the bottom, but a little on the spine, as well.  No punches or cuts.

Please let me know if you require additional information or photographs.  Will be shipped in a proper corrugated LP box, along with a thick poly sleeve.

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Local pick-up here in the far northwest suburbs of Chicago is always welcomed, at no charge, and I'm very flexible on days/times.

Thanks for viewing this auction...all the best to you in your bidding.

If this LP jacket looks original, and requires deeper investigation of the labels due to potential rarity and value, I'll consider slitting the shrink and adding photos of the labels...but I'll require a consensus of you expert collectors first. Thank you.

Please be aware that you read my additions to the description above.  The jacket is NO LONGER sealed.

Please DISREGARD The "Condition: Acceptable" line below the item title.  I did not write that.  In eBay's insatiable desire for constant changes, they've somehow added a new one and inserted the "acceptable" word.  I have no way to remove it.  The record condition is as I clearly state.  The cover is a week NM, and the jacket was originally sealed until two days ago when I carefully opened the shrink to inspect the label.  The vinyl has never been removed from the inner sleeve, never touched, and never played.  Thank you.