LED ZEPPELIN II.RED/PLUM ATLANTIC.RARE CONTRACT PRESSING,A/B MATRIX ONLY,1969

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$ 62

£ 47 Sold For

Sep 28, 2014 Sold Date

Sep 21, 2014 Start Date

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PLEASE READ ALL DESCRIPTIONS AND LOOK AT THE PHOTOS BELOW AS I AM STILL GETTING THE ODD BUYER SAYING THEY NEVER LOOKED AT OR HAVE SEEN THE PICTURES BELOW.
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LED ZEPPELIN LED ZEPPELIN II VERY RARE CONTRACT PRESSING ATLANTIC RECORDS RED/PLUM 588198 1ST UK PRESS A+B MATRIX. NO NUMBERS CROSSED OUT 8 ON SIDE TWO CORRECTED AND RE STAMPED. 1969 LEMON SONG CREDIT
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THE MATRIX AND LABEL FORMAT ON THIS VINYL PRESSING: I have seen many variants of this album during the past 42 years but none of them match, or even resemble, the matrix and pressing format I find on this vinyl. The heavy weight of the vinyl is fairly typical of first pressings at 155 grammes but that is where the similarity ends. This appears to be a UK contract pressing having, in my experience, more in common with the UK Reprise format than the Atlantic Polydor pressings. It would be no surprise to find that pressings of this album were contracted out because of the huge, and concentrated, demand - indeed what is more surprising is that they seem to be so rare. All the UK Atlantic variants I have come across have machine imprinted matrix – the catalogue number followed by A//2 & B//2 for the earliest (there were no //1 master codes in retail distribution) moving on up to //5 & //6 for the later examples. These master codes were then followed by a series of machine imprinted digits denoting the mothers and stampers. However, this has completely hand etched matrices, and ‘KT’ purchase tax code, in a much different format which looks much more like that found on Reprise pressings from the era – it is reasonable to assume therefore that this was pressed by one of the pressing plants working primarily for Reprise UK. The catalogue number is followed by just ‘A’ & ‘B’ with no master number, the mother is marked with ‘1’ and the stampers are denoted by a single letter – all hand etched. The side 2 matrix is also error corrected with the second 8 in the catalogue number having been originally marked as a 9 and then etched out with the 8 being placed above. Also, the label pressing format is more typical of a Reprise pressing than Atlantic-Polydor with two pressing rings creating a ‘flange’ or ‘Saturn effect’ a short distance out from the spindle hole - please see photographs which clearly show all of these features. The UK purchase tax code ‘KT’ also appears hand etched into the vinyl ‘run-off’ areas on side 1 which I have not seen before on Atlantic Polydor pressings but does frequently appear on Reprise pressings from this era. Collectors can make their assessment of rarity based on the facts but in any event this is an excellent vinyl delivering terrific audio and well worth having in any collection on that basis alone.

SLEEVE THE MATT GATEFOLD SLEEVE IS GOOD CONDITION

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INNER SLEEVE. ORIGINAL "PLASTIC BAG CAN BE DANGEROUS" INNER IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. BROWNING DUE TO AGE NO SPLITS

VINYL THE RECORD IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION

RECORD LABEL THE LABEL IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

MATRIX NUMBERS A/B NO NUMBERS
KT TAX CODE ON BOTH SIDES NEVER SEEN ON ANY OTHER LED ZEPPELIN II ALBUM VERY RARE CONTRACT PRESSING
1/1 MOTHER STAMPERS.

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