Beatles Sgt Pepper FOURTH PROOF 1st Uk Press Patent Pending -1-1 WIDE SPINE 5MM
  £   112
  $   148

 


£ 112 Sold For
Jul 14, 2012 Sold Date
Jul 9, 2012 Start Date
£   9 Start price
10   Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
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Welcome to my auction for this
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????THE ONLY ONE ON EBAY????


The Beatles

SGT PEPPER

MONO

PMC 7027

RARE FOURTH PROOF 5MM WIDE SPINE 1ST PRESS

KT
TAX CODE

XEX 637-1
XEX 638-1

GARROD AND LOFTHOUSE
"PATENT PENDING"
SLEEVE

“Fourth Proof” 5mm Wide Spine Sleeve

This very very rare unique sleeve! The “Fourth Proof” sleeve represents the earliest possible pressing of the Sgt Pepper cover. The Fourth Proof was the final version of the various ‘prototypes’ that were explored by the Beatles when the cover was being designed. The cover (and text) was approved by the Beatles and an initial very small ‘test’ run was undertaken to make sure everything looked OK. This small test run is characterised by the inverted “Fourth Proof” text in the top right hand corner of the inner gatefold – just above George Harrison’s head. This is therefore the earliest possible ‘prototype’ (test pressing) cover. Same fold-back have can printed text “AR D1321? which was probably the reference number for the prototype text that was used.


NOW I HAVE SEEN FOURTH PROOF SGT PEPPER BUT NEVER SEEN ONE WITH A 5MM WIDE SPINE.. COULD BE EVEN RARER THAN YOU THINK!

VERY HARD TO FIND! AS THIS IS THE ONLY ONE ON EBAY AS OF THE 9/7/12 SO DON`T FORGET TO BID YOU MAY NOT COME ACROSS ONE AGAIN FOR A LONG TIME!

 

Ok well the condition i will explain the condition the best i can, before i start let me say im NOT A VINYL EXPERT i will be looking at all imperfection and letting everyone know first of all the cover is in EXCELLENT would have graded NEAR MINT if the spine was better, but i have been informed that it is impossible to find a fourth proof cover with a good spine due to them using thin cardboard when production started. The LP I would grade as good with surface marks on both sides.

Add this to your collection before someone else does!!



OVER THE NEXT FEW DAY I WILL BE LISTING SOME AWESOME LP`s INCLUDING SUCH THINGS THAT YOU MAY WANT!!

SGT PEPPER (5MM WIDE SPINE) 10/10 SUPERB MINT
SGT PEPPER (ONE EMI BOX)
REVOVER (REMIX 11)
WHITE ALBUM
YESTERDAY AND TODAY
AND MANY MORE......

SO PLEASE PLEASE COME BACK AND CHECK MY OTHER ITEMS OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS AS IM SURE THERE WILL BE SOMETHING FOR YOU!

 
Any other Question please ask!

Thank you for looking!


On 11-Jul-12 at 11:08:16 BST, seller added the following information:

 HERE IS SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE LP I HAVE JUST FOUND OUT

An original UK pressing in original condition featuring the rarest known variant of this remarkable record.

This unique variant of this remarkable album features effectively a pre- production sleeve.  After the first  Three  ‘ Proof ’ sleeves, these  ‘ Fourth Proof ’  sleeves  were passed around at EMI for final agreement.   It is believed that only  40 – 50  ‘ Fourth Proof ’ sleeves  were ever printed !. As these  sleeves were ‘ Proof ’ copies they  were NEVER meant to be released to the general public,  but  a small   number  of these ‘ Fourth Proof ’ sleeves DID  find their  way onto the public market !.  

These ‘ Fourth Proof ’ sleeves  have a number of  unique printing differences from the final agreed production sleeves: 

1. a  ‘ FOURTH   PROOF ’  and a  ‘ A R ’  and  ‘ D  13217 ’  appear printed on the top flipback on the inner gatefold of the sleeve. There is a story about this that the old style of  ‘ visual ’ flipbacks were on the way out and that ‘ Sgt Pepper ’  was to feature the new ‘ inner ’  flipback design.  It was therefore thought that the above text would  NOT be  seen !. Apparently the ‘ A R ’ stands for the designers initials and the  ‘ D  13217 ’ is the internal catalogue number for the printers of the sleeve, ‘Garrod and Lofthouse’.

2.  the rear of the sleeve features the text ‘ Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd ’  but with  an  additional  ‘ Patents Pending ’ text, only a very small number of very early Pepper Mono sleeves had this additional text. Standard  sleeves normally just state ‘ Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd’  (G&L). Just after the official launch of Sgt Pepper in June 1967, G&L  seem to have got their ‘ Patents ’ confirmed and the ‘ Patents Pending ’  text  was removed from the sleeve !.





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