NOT ONLY A SENSATIONAL COPY OF THE  UK WITH RARE WIDESPINE SLEEVE  FULLY COMPLETE WITH FOOL INNER AND INSERT BUT A FABULOUS PLAYING COPY AS WELL....WHILST THIS COPY MAY TECHNICALLY BE POSSIBLY TO JUST UPGRADE UPON IN REALITY IT WOULD BE EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND A BETTER EXAMPLE, AND WHATS MORE IF YOU OWNED IT YOU WOULD PROBABLY NOT FEEL THE NEED TOO.

THIS IS EASILY ONE OF THE BEST COPIES OF A WIDESPINE I HAVE EVEN SEEN, A TOP TOP COPY !!

....L@@K

THIS COPY ALSO HAS THE EXTRA DOT ON SIDE ONE LABEL AFTER THE SOLD IN. IN THE SOLD IN.U.K. TEXT !!

THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT SLEEVED VARIAINTS OF SGT PEPPER AND ALTHOUGH THE CRONOLOGY IS NOT TOTALLY CERTAIN, THE AMOUNT OF LOW MOTHER/STAMPER COPIES OFTEN FOUND IN WIDESPINE SLEEVES ( ESPECIALLY STEREO'S ) TENDS TO SUBSTANTIATE THE BELIEF THAT THESE WIDESPINE SLEEVES ARE INDEED THE EARLIEST MADE. 

INDEED AT THE PRE-RELEASE LAUNCH PARTY ( WHICH i THINK WAS HELD AT BRIAN EPSTEIN'S LONDON HOME ) IN SOME PICTURESTHE BEATLES CAN BE SEEN CLEARLY HOLDING A WIDESPINE SGT PEPPER VARIANT:-

HOWEVER IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT STORAGE ISSUES LED TO A RAPID RE-DESIGN OF THE SLEEVES TO REDUCE THE WIDTH OF THE SPINE AND IT IS PROBABLY HERE WERE THE SO-CALLED " FOURTH PROOF " THIN SPINE SLEEVES APPEAR WHICH WERE ACTUALLY PROBABLY PROOFS FOR NEW STANDARD THINNER SPINE SLEEVES. AS SUCH THE FOURTH PROOFS ARE PROBABLY NOT THE EARLIEST SLEEVE VARIANTS AS OFTEN CLAIMED, THESE WIDESPINES ARE.

EVEN THOUGH STEREO YELLOW/BLACK PEPPERS ARE ACTUALLY PROBABLY RARER THAN THE MONOS, BECAUSE THE BEATLES WERE INVOLVED DIRECTLY IN THE MONO MIX AND BECAUSE IT IS QUITE DIFFERENT TO THE STEREO MIX WHICH IS THE MIX MOST OF US ARE MOST FAMILAIR WITH, MONO COPIES ARE MORE SOUGHT AFTER.

                                               GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS !!

For Auction here is the UK LP ''  SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND " 

ARTIST:  THE BEATLES

MONO/STEREO: MONO

Cat. No : PMC 7027

LABEL: PARLOPHONE  

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: 1967

MATRICIES:  -1 -1

MOTHERS STAMPERS:    NOTHING UNUSUAL

TAX: KT

VINYL WEIGHT: 145g

THE CONDITION

SLEEVE: SENSATIONAL EXAMPLE, JUST A COUPLE OF VERY MINOR BLEMISHES WHICH DO NOT DETRACT FROM THIS FABULOUS WIDESPINE , GRADES EXCELLENT TO EXCELLENT PLUS, ONE OF THE BEST

VINYL VISUAL : AMAZING  RETAINS  IT'S FIRST PRESSED SHINE WHICH IS SO RARE WITH PEPPERS DUE PROBABLY TO THE INNOVATIVE LACK OF TRACK BANDING WHICH SEEMS TO DULL THE VINYL, THIS ONE IS NOT AND WHATS MORE BARELY DISPLAYS EVEN LIGHT HAIRLINES MOSTLY ONLY UNDER A BRIGHT HALOGEN LAMP, GRADES EX PLUS TO NOT FAR OFF MINT.

LABELS: NO SERIOUS FLAWS MILD EVIDENCE OF CAREFUL PLAY - SUPERB CONDITION GRADE EXCELLENT 

FOOL INNER: EASILY ONE OF THE BETTER FOOL INNERS YOU WILL SEE, UNSPLIT  AMAZINGLY SO GRADES EX- 

A REALLY SUPERB AND COMPLETE EXAMPLE, HARD TO BEAT TOP COPY !!! 

GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS!

DOMESTIC DISPATCH WILL BE BY SIGNED FOR DELIVERY, THIS IS TO PREVENT FRAUDULANT CLAIMS OF NON RECEIPT INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE SEE MY NOTES BELOW

DOMESTIC DISPATCH WILL BE BY SIGNED FOR DELIVERY, THIS IS TO PREVENT FRAUDULANT CLAIMS OF NON RECEIPT ! INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE SEE MY NOTES BELOW

FOR BIDDERS OUTSIDE UK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT...  non uk bidders please read my notes about international postage below.....returns policy only applies to UK outside of UK buyer has to cover the return postage! FOR INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT due to ebays revised " buyer " protection policy even more sellers will start to refuse to sell internationally. I however will still sell internationally but i reserve the right to not to complete any international transaction if the buyer has any bad or witheld feedback or for any other reason that I choose and this is especially so for items that sell for near to GBP 150 or higher. So if you are an international bidder and win one of my auctions and then find I have completed the transaction elsewhere this will be because the new ebay/paypal policy now makes it almost impossible for sellers to sell safely overseas, thank you

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