BOTH SIDES OF THE Pennine Folk TDS6601 2980 UK 1968 ALFA TICKAWINDA

	£		180
	$		238

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During this national lockdown, I started to sort through some of my mountains of rare records, at first pulling out ones I didn't play as much as I should, or else ones that I've since upgraded from. However as time has gone on I have done some soul searching, and have actually pulled out some of the biggest titles I have in my collection (and the ones that were kind of my investment plan for if I fell on hard times!), this week, I offer some of them to you, I have focussed on rare Psych (Tea and Symphony, Forest, Dr Strangely Strange, Vashti Bunyan's first single, and other rare Harvest and Vertigo titles to name a few), Folk (Tickawinda! Clive's Original Band, Anne Briggs, The Pennine Folk, The Incredible String Band, The Famous Jug Band etc.) Prog (Pink Floyd, E.L.P. Bakerloo, Climax Blues Band, early Black Sabbath), some very rare Jazz (Michael Garrick Trio, Helen Merrill) some rare signed LPs including THE BYRDS! And some super rare Beatles (Megarare SOLID CENTRES including Paperback Writer, I Want To Hold Your Hand, Beatles' Hits, Twist and Shout EP etc. And some rare LPs Gold Parlophone, A Hard Day's Night "Know" mispress, XEX-606-1, Sgt.Peppers omits A Day In The Life. and ... if I can bring myself to, my VAULT COPY of the Mono One Box Label of Please Please Me... Don't hold me to that, I might chicken out and find a better day to take photos!)
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Grading: I grade using the Record Collector Rare Record Grading system with the addition of NM, by which I mean a non-sealed but to my eyes perfect, possibly unplayed, or played incredibly carefully once or twice! I will not use the term M (Mint) unless the record is sealed, or there is some other demonstrable way of proving it is unplayed. Please bear in mind that in my gradings EX+ for example are incredibly good records, that you almost never see! I feel that I grade down if anything, please check my feedback for proof of this! I have sold many records (some incredibly rare ones in the 4 figures) over the years, so please rest assured that my gradings have been satisfactory so far! Though, if you have any concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me before leaving negative feedback. I haven't had negative feedback so far, and don't intend to start now if I can at all help it!
BOTH SIDES OF THE PENNINES (Pennine Folk) TDS6601 2980 MEGA RARE! UK 1968 ALFA TICKAWINDA!
Here we have an incredibly rare 1968 UK Private Pressing of The Pennine Folk, who became better known as the Pennines, when they signed to Penny Farthing for their "Manchester Morning" LP and single (themselves highly sought after, but nowhere near as sought after as this first Private Pressed outing onto vinyl!). Lovely close harmonies and enchanting female vocals, mixing both traditional and more "contemporary" style folk, this is very much in the vein of the legendary TICKAWINDA, and were in fact from the next town across! SO I'mdubbing them the Proto-Tickawinda! You heard it here first! Unbelievably spellbinding female harmonies on their version of Cyril Tawney’s “Sally Free And Easy”! (I also currently have my copy of the near mythic TICKAWINDA LP ROSEMARY LANE on Pennine Records listed, and plenty of other mega rarities so I urge you to take a look!)  

Record Condition: EX Stunning, with just a handful of  light ticks.

Record Condition: EX Both audibly and visually! Really beautiful mirror-like surfaces with just a few small surface marks and feather-light withdrawal-style paper hairlines. Beautifully lightly/carefully played, for such delicate music, you'd hope for nothing less!


Sleeve Condition: EX pretty much EX+ but for a couple of very small discoloured patches,this is due to quite how vulnerable this sleeve is, as whilst it's glossy, this almost entirely white sleeve is produced completely without lamination, so absolutely any impurity that has touched this sleeve will stain it! Remarkable I think then, quite how little there is to detract from it's perfection! This sleeve is so crisp, and almost without signs of handling! All of the edges are perfect and crisp,and completely free from any wear! And the surfaces are superb, just 2 very light handling crescent indents only visible on the front when angled into strong direct light. The spine corners are perfect, just perfect! The opening mouth corners, have the very slightest foxing, but extremely minor, the opening mouth edges are perfect. Due to the manufacture of these sleeves every copy shows a little discolouration of excess glue to the edges of the flip-back tabs, and this is no exception, I mention this just to be completest in my description, rather than to mark it down for this, seeing as they all had this!  I can't believe quite how perfect this sleeve has remained for over 50 years, incredibly well looked after!

DEADWAX INFO:

SIDE 1:

    TDS 6601-A1

A                         3 

SIDE 1:

    TDS 6601-B1

A                         1 


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