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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 03, 2007 02:38 AM

Hi all,

This is OOP but I believe a lot of members here are also collectong Vinyl. It can be seen from the response on the topico of Vinyl Resurgence .

So rather than asking in other designated forums and wait for a long time for the answer, I decided to throw the questions here.

My questions are:

1. How we can know that one LP is a first pressing?
2. Since during the heydey, Vinyls were pressed in several countries, how can we say that one particular country's pressing is higher value than the other's?
3. Are all first pressing LPs having high value? no matter what album they are?

Please help me!

thanks,

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Winbert

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Claus Harding
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1149
From: Washington DC
Registered: Oct 2006

posted January 05, 2007 04:28 PM

Hello Winbert,

I too still have/collect albums, but I am no pro at this.
The info on editions and masters can be found in the runout grooves of an LP (towards the label.)In there you will see the matrix and master numbers and letters to indicate the edition and stamper used.

From what little I know, the higher the alphabet letter, the more recent the pressing (as in starting with A as the first run.)

As far as value, the market and circumstance pretty well determines that.
Bob Dylan's first LP was pulled almost as soon as it was released because of some controversial songs, then re-released in edited form. The original release basically vanished until a man picked up a copy in mono at a church flea market for $1 a few years back. It sold for about $10.000. Had it been in stereo, it would have fetched around twice that.
So first edition is only a good selling point if the artist and the album is considered collectible for whatever reason.
I hope this is of some help.
Claus Harding.

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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 05, 2007 05:39 PM

Thanks Clauss,

That helps me much. One question that is not answered yet, i.e.: since many countries released the same album almost at the same time, would also every first press of every country have higher value. For example, Hong Kong or Australia also pressed that Bob Dylan's album. Will their first run be higher in the value too?.

Regards,

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Winbert

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