NOT ONLY A MEGA RARE QUADROPHONIC PRESSING WITH EARLIEST A2 B1 MATRICIES BUT WITH VERY EARLY MOTHER/STAMPERS OF 1T AND 1P AND THE RAREST " DARK BLUE " SLEEVE L@@K...

EMI BEGAN THEIR EXPERIMENT WITH THE EXCELLENT SQ QRADROPHONIC SYSTEM IN 1972 AND BY 1976 NEARLY ALL THEIR CLASSIC RELEASES WERE SQ QUAD.

HOWEVER FLOYD COLLECTORS WILL KNOW THAT VERY FEW POP/ROCK RELEASES GOT A QUADROPHONIC VERSION, IMAGINE, ATOM HEART MOTHER, WISH YOU WERE HERE AND THIS LP TO NAME BUT FOUR.

USUALLY THE QUADROPHONIC VARIANT APPEARED LONG AFTER THE LP'S FIRST STEREO RELEASE ( IN THE SAME WAY THE EARLY STEREO'S OFTEN APPEARED AFTER THE MONO'S IN THE LATE 50'S AND EARLY 60'S ). IN THE CASE OF DARK SIDE OF THE MOON THE QUAD VERSION WAS RELEASED AT THE END OF 1973. AS SUCH THERE ARE NO " SOLID BLUE TRIANGLE " VARIANTS OR "GRAMOPHONE CO " RIMMED LABELS, ALL LABELS CARRY THE EMI RECORDS RIM TEXT.

HOWEVER THE EARLIEST ISSUES DO CARRY THE " WORLD COPYRIGHT " LABELS WHICH WAS LATER REMOVED AND THE EARLIEST MATRICIES KNOWN ARE A2/B1, ALSO ONLY THE VERY EARLIEST PRESSINGS ARE ON HEAVIER VINYL, THE VINYL QUALITY AND WEIGHT DETERIORATES RAPIDLY FROM THE END OF 1973 SO ONLY THE VERY EARLIEST ISSUES LIKE THIS HAVE A DECENT WEIGHT !!

LASTLY THE SLEEVE IS NOT ONLY OF THE " DARK BLUE VARIETY " BUT ALSO FROM AROUND 1974 THE INSIDES CHANGE TO A LIGHT BEIGE OR FAWNY COLOUR BY WHICH TIME THE OUTSIDE COLOUR IS NOW A JET BLACK. ON THE ORIGINAL SLEEVES THE COLOUR ON THE INSIDE IS GRAY.

   AS IT IS ALL QUADS SOLD IN TINY NUMBERS SO ALL ARE VERY COLLECTABLE, HOWEVER THIS IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST QUADS SO IS THEREFORE ONE OF THE RAREST OF THE RAREST !!

 L@@K....

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

FOR BIDDERS WITH ZERO FEEDBACK THIS IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT...   I have recently been the victim of serveral spurious bids from several different members (usually based in the Russian Federation). Please note that if you win any of my items and have zero feedback I will ask you for immediate payment or for you to email and immediately confirm that you were a genuine bidder. Failiure to meet either of those critiera will result in the item being  offered to the next highest bidder without further delay. thank you. 

FOR  DOMESTIC UK BIDDERS PLEASE NOTE THAT ITEMS THAT SELL WILL HAVE TO BE SENT VIA SIGNED FOR RECORDED DELIVERY WHICH IS GBP 3.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND GBP 4.99 FOR A DOUBLE LP, THIS IS TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT CLAIMS OF NIN RECEIPT, IF ANY BUYES ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THIS THEN PLEASE DO NOT BID  INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE SEE MY NOTES BELOW

For Auction here is the UK LP ''  DARK SIDE OF THE MOON " 

ARTIST:  PINK FLOYD

MONO/STEREO:  QUADRAPHONIC

Cat. No : Q4SHVL 801

LABEL: HARVEST  

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: NOVEMBER 1973

MATRICIES:  A2  B1 

WEIGHT : 130G

THE CONDITION

SLEEVE:  EARLIEST " DARK BLUE "  EXAMPLE DO TEND TO WEAR BADLY EVEN  WORSE THAN THE LATER BLACK ONES ( AND THEY WARE BAD ENOUGH !! ) . THIS HOWEVER IS A RESPECTABLE EXAMPLE WITH A NICE SPINE & MIMAL STORAGEWARE, BUT A SMALL SPLIT TOP REAR. I WOULD  GRADE VG

VINYL VISUAL:  NICE COPY, STILL RETAINS IT'S SHEEN, MOSTLY JUST HAIRLINES UNDER A BRIGHT LIGHT, GRADES EX-

LABELS: NO FLAWS OTHER THAN SOME FOXING , GRADE EXCELLENT-

REALLY NICE EARLY  EXAMPLE OF A VERY RARE DISC, GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS!

 (Please note that whilst I try to endeavour to adhere to strict RC gradings I will never describe ANYTHING AS MINT even when I think it to be so. As far as I am concerned any secondhand item by definition cannot be mint. However if I believe an item to be Mint  I will instead either use the terms Near Mint, mint minus, or in archive or vault condition. When I use these terms you know that in my opinion this is in effect a de-facto Mint grade )

INSURANCE INCLUDED IN P&P PRICE DEPENDING ON FINAL SALE VALUE...

Dont forget to take a look at my other items. Please feel free to contact me with any queries you may have.

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I ONLY DO A COUPLE OF RUNS A WEEK TO THE POST OFFICE BUT MY ITEMS ARE ALWAYS DISPATCHED WELL WITHIN ONE CALENDAR WEEK OF PAYMENT BEING RECEIVED. I APOLOGISE IN ADVANCE TO THOSE BUYERS WHO SEEM TO EXPECT THEIR ITEM TO ARRIVE THE NEXT DAY, IF YOU WANT TO CHECK WHEN AN ITEM WAS SENT JUST PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND I WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO TELL YOU!! (SOME PEOPLE DO MAKE YOU LAUGH, FOR ITEMS I BUY I ONLY NORMALLY GET CONCERNED AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND EVEN AFTER THAT THEN ONLY POLIETELY ENQUIRE IF AND WHEN THE ITEM WAS SENT).

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PAYMENTS BY PAYPAL ARE PREFERRED BUT I ALSO ACCEPT OTHER METHODS. I ALSO POST WORLDWIDE (PLS APPLY FOR RATES) BUT DUE TO A PROBLEM WITH A DISREPUTABLE BUYER IN JAPAN (EBAY WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO NAME THEM) , FOR ALL PAYMENTS MADE VIA PAYPAL THE ITEM WILL ONLY BE SENT BOTH TO THE UK AND WORLDWIDE BY RECORDED OR INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR DELIVERY. THIS IS TO ELIMINATE THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY ATTEMPT TO CLAIM BACK THE PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL EVEN AFTER ACTUALLY HAVING RECEIVED THE ITEM.

THIS OBVIOUSLY HAS HAD THE RESULT OF INCREASING MY COSTS FOR POSTING AND PACKING AND I AM VERY SORRY FOR THIS BUT PAYPAL OFFER NO PROTECTION FOR SELLERS UNLESS THERE IS PROOF OF DELIVERY!! PROOF OF POSTING WOULD SEEM INSUFFICIENT TO THEM AND I HAVE FOUND THIS OUT THE HARD WAY..

DUE TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF THIS SAME BUYER PAYPAL PAYMENTS WILL ALSO NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM BUYERS WHO DO NOT ALLOW THEIR FEEDBACK TO READ, SO IF YOU FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY PLEASE DO NOT BID ON MY ITEMS UNLESS YOU CAN PAY BY ANOTHER METHOD…….COST VIA INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR MAIL TO EUROPE FOR A SINGLE LP IS USUALLY GBP 8.99 AND TO THE USA/REST OF THE WORLD GBP 13.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND 16.99 FOR A DOUBLE BASED ON A "DECLARED" VALUE OF UNDER GBP 50... 

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