The Beatles - Help - *NEAR MINT* UK 1965 1st Press *MONO* Parlophone LP
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Description
THE BEATLES - 'HELP!'
This truly NEAR MINT UK 1st MONO pressing dates from August 1965 release on the yellow & black Parlophone label: PMC 1255.
Both labels bear the 'Sold in UK...' text with 'The Gramophone Co...' rims & a 'KT' purchase tax code in the centre of the side 1 label.
Matrix numbers: XEX 549-2 & XEX 550-2
Stamper codes: 4,8/RAG & 5/ROH
Vinyl weight: 145g
Housed in a front laminated, tri-flipback 'Garrod & Lofthouse' printed tri-flipback mono cover.
Complete with its original rice-paper lined, 'Use Emitex...' inner-sleeve.
CONDITION
Disc
Labels: NEAR MINT
A clean, unworn pair bearing no more than two or three light spindle trails around each unworn centre hole.
Visual: NEAR MINT
Pristine, factory-fresh playing surfaces which are completely 'as new' in strong daylight with just a couple of barely visible wispy paper hairlines from the inner-sleeve directly beneath my unforgiving halogen desk lamp. This beautiful disc will not require upgrading.
Sound Quality: MINT
Flawless, unworn sound quality everywhere on this immaculate copy which has been played only once or twice at most. Never mind the sound of the 'new' mono pressing, this is real deal.
Cover: NEAR MINT
This exceptional example looks like it left the shops yesterday, let alone 49 years ago.
Always correctly stored in a clean, non-smoking environment, the card is white & un-aged throughout. The slightly 'creamy' front panel retains a sparkling, unworn high-gloss laminate which is free from any 'thumbnail' or spine wrinkles, or indeed any other trace of wear.
All corners are in magnificent shape with just a tiny bruise to rear upper right which is visible only from the rear. All others are sharp & unworn, just as they left the factory. Both opening edges are also in a similar superb condition.
The rear panel is overall pristine & unblemished. The only blemishes are a small splash of printer's ink beneath the laminate on the upper flipback above George's portrait and a few small marks where the lamination meets the card along the spine flipback .
Both seams and the spine itself is in perfect unworn condition.
You will not find better.
Inner-sleeve: NEAR MINT
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