Two Columbia Classical Test Pressings 1960/62 - Beethoven 4th and 5th Klemperer

	£		62
	$		82

I came across these recently in a local charity shop. Two records in 2 sleeves, one dated 1960, one dated 1962. Test pressings - the pressing plant makes stampers and runs-off one or a few records, which then go to the record company quality control for approval, before full production can start. They commonly had one side of the music and one side blank (grooved but silent) - so the music is spread across two disks.   In this case, single disks, each being one of a pair, and I don't have the other one. Both of the sleeves show sleeve originally contained only one record, not a pair. They are the right disks, matching with the covers, I checked the matrix numbers on the records. 
I have made plenty of photos, so you can see all the hand-written info on the cover and disks. Best thing, as I'm not knowledgeable about classical music records. If you read the writing, you'll then know as much about them, as I do.  Condition of the playing surfaces described below. The damage described is pretty light. If I was talking about pop records, I would not expect to hear any effect, as records of this vintage had deep robust grooves. Things may be a bit different on quiet passages on classical records - I haven't listened to these (and don't intend to).
Sleeves - Both are plain white, good condition, just discoloured from age and normal handling. Original early-60s EMI inner sleeves.
Records - Beethoven Symphony No. 5 - Klemperer. Matrix YAX 457-5, dated 1960. Has 2 bands. There's a long light broad fingernail mark on track 1. A tiny speck of something on track 1 - not paint, could be removed, I got some of it off. On track 2, there's very short quite deep scratch (stylus impact). 
Beethoven Symphony No. 4 - Klemperer. Matrix YAX 455-11. Dated 1962. Has 2 bands. There's a long light-ish scratch on track 1, and another light scratch at end of track 1. A long surface-y scrape on second half of track 1 and first half of track 2. Just a few other surface marks and fingernail marks.
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