Beatles ''Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts '' FOURTH PROOF-Not For Sale 1st Issue Mono
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Beatles ''Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band'' FOURTH PROOF-Factory Sample Not For Sale Sticker plus Card UK 1st Issue Mono The records ‘engraved’ matrix is: XEX 637 - 1 and XEX 638 - 1,
1. this unique sleeve variant of this album features what was a 'pre production' sleeve. The first three ‘Proof’ sleeves never saw the light of day, but these ‘Fourth Proof’ sleeves were passed around at EMI for final agreement. Never meant to be released, but a small number of these sleeves did find their way out into the shops. As these were ‘Proof’ sleeves they should NEVER have left the printers.
There are a number of unique features to these ‘Proof’ sleeves when compared to the final 'agreed' production sleeves:
a. the printed text of, ‘Fourth Proof’, and ‘AR D 13217’ printed upside down, found on the top right ‘flip back’. The story of this is that the old style of ‘visual flip backs’ were on the way out and the sleeve for the latest Beatles LP, Sgt Pepper was to feature the new ‘hidden inner flip back’ design, (but this never happened !) it was therefore thought that the above text would NOT be seen. Apparently the ‘A R’ text stands for the designers initials and the ‘D 13217’ text is the internal catalogue number for the printers of the sleeve, ‘Garrod and Lofthouse’,
b. the rear of the sleeve features the text ‘Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd, 'Patents Pending’. It is only the ‘Fourth Proof’ sleeves and a very small number of very early UK ‘flip back’ Pepper mono sleeves that have the text, ‘Patents Pending’. The sleeve normally just states ‘Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd’ (G&L). By the time of the official UK launch of Sgt Pepper in June 1967, G&L had got their ‘Patents’ agreed and the text, ‘Patents Pending’ was ‘officially’ removed from the rear of the sleeve,
2. comes with its original earliest, 'dark green' card 'cut out' sheet insert,
3. comes with its original red and white 'wavy' pattern inner sleeve.
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