Folder 112

Israel

Israel, made by CBS in Tel Aviv. The logo and title are printed white, not gold - which is the whole identification.

Catalogue: EJ 240200
Label: Portrait, manufactured and distributed by CBS Records Ltd., Tel Aviv
Released: 1984
Confidence: Confirmed
Why this grade
two marks, and each is one of the two things 11063721 states about itself: the front cover's white IRON MAIDEN logo and title, against the gold on the only other Israeli entry's own primary photograph, and the matrix pair 240200 A Q … STERLING / 240200 B Q … STERLING, which that entry records and the other records not at all
Reference: Discogs 11063721
Median sale: DKK 389
Sale range: DKK 352-423
On sale now: None listed
Last sold: 11 December 2021

What the record says

Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.

Run-out photographed, both sides. The side carrying the printed label reads 240200. A followed by a spaced Q, with THERES ONLY and the following word running out of frame etched further round, and STERLING beyond that. The other side reads 240200 B and a spaced Q, with THATS FUCK UM. and STERLING. Both strings are Discogs' own for release 11063721 - 240200 A Q THERES ONLY ONE UM STERLING and 240200 B Q THATS FUCK UM STERLING - with the number-to-message pairing identical. The ONE in the first message is read from no frame here; THERES ONLY is what is legible and the final word is quoted from Discogs, not off this record. What that entry does NOT match is which face it calls which: it files the B string under Side-A and the A string under Side-B, the opposite way round from this copy. That is recorded below as an open question rather than resolved, because one contributor's field label and a reversed-label copy look identical from here.

Barcode and Other Identifiers: Matrix / Runout

As Discogs records them for release 11063721. Green: in my collection (2 of 2). Red: missing.

✓	Matrix / Runout (Side-A)	`240200 B Q THATS FUCK UM STERLING` — this copy
✓	Matrix / Runout (Side-B)	`240200 A Q THERES ONLY ONE UM STERLING` — this copy

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 16 of them

Front cover: the IRON MAIDEN logo printed solid white, with no gold fill - compare the US copy in folder 111, whose logo is gold with a white outline

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Front cover: the title POWERSLAVE printed in the same white, running up the left edge

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Rear cover, foot: Manufactured and Distributed by CBS Records Ltd. P.O.B 681, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Rear cover, foot, the same line in Hebrew: מיוצר ומופץ ע״י תקליטי סי.בי.אס בע״מ ת.ד 681, תל־אביב, ישראל.

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Rear cover, catalogue block: UK: POWER 1 over ● EJ 2402001 - the British numbers, printed from the international artwork

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Label: EJ 240200 with EJ 2402001a printed beneath it

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Label rim: MADE IN ISRAEL with תוצרת ישראל beside it

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Label: a boxed ACUM mark - the Israeli rights society

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Label, side A, in purple on the sand ground: IRON MAIDEN / POWERSLAVE, 33⅓ R.P.M. Stereo, THIS SIDE 1. ACES HIGH (Harris) 4.31 … 5. THE DUELLISTS (Harris) 6.18, OTHER SIDE 1. BACK IN THE VILLAGE (Smith/Dickinson) 5.02 · 2. POWERSLAVE (Dickinson) 7.12 · 3. RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER (Harris) 13.45

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Label rim: ALL RIGHTS OF THE PRODUCER AND OF THE OWNER OF THE RECORDED WORK RESERVED. UNAUTHORIZED COPYING, HIRING, LENDING, PUBLIC PERFORMANCE AND BROADCA…

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Run-out, printed-label side, etched: 240200. A and a spaced Q

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Run-out, printed-label side, etched: THERES ONLY (the following word runs out of frame)

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Run-out, other side, etched: 240200 B and a spaced Q

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Run-out, other side, etched: THATS FUCK UM.

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Run-out, both sides: STERLING

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

Outer sleeve - single, standard artwork, printed from the international plates: the rear still carries the British catalogue block UK: POWER 1 / EJ 2402001, and only the CBS Tel Aviv line at the foot says where it was made. Cracked and creased along the top edge.
Labels - the international sand design, side one text and side two the eye image, with MADE IN ISRAEL and its Hebrew twin on the rim and a boxed ACUM beside them.
Vinyl - black.
The printing, not the record: the IRON MAIDEN logo and the POWERSLAVE title are both solid white on this cover, where every other 1984 copy on this shelf prints them gold.

What distinguishes this pressing

A white logo. This is the identification, and it is a photograph against a photograph: 11063721's stated feature is “White Iron Maiden logo”, and the only other Israeli entry's own primary image shows a gold one. Nothing else separates the two entries - same label, same catalogue number, same manufacturing line, word for word.
Manufactured and Distributed by CBS Records Ltd. P.O.B 681, Tel Aviv, Israel., printed twice - once in English and once in Hebrew. CBS made the record; the label field on both Discogs entries says Portrait, CBS's own imprint, rather than EMI.
A British catalogue block on an Israeli sleeve. The rear still reads UK: POWER 1 and EJ 2402001 from the international artwork, while the labels print the local EJ 240200. The sleeve was never re-originated for the territory.
ACUM, boxed on the label - the Israeli authors' society, and the one rights mark on this shelf that appears on no other copy.
240200 A Q / 240200 B Q - the EMI number stripped of its EJ prefix and its trailing 1, with a lone Q after the side letter. Every European and Japanese copy here cuts the fuller EJ 2402001 form.
THERES ONLY [ONE] … and THATS FUCK UM. - the same cutting-room graffiti the European copy in folder 108 carries, which is what a Sterling-cut lacquer brings with it wherever it is sent. It corroborates the family and discriminates nothing.

Eight tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

A1Aces High
A22 Minutes To Midnight
A3Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)
A4Flash Of The Blade
A5The Duellists

Side B

B1Back In The Village
B2Powerslave
B3Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

Bruce Dickinson - vocals · Dave Murray - lead and rhythm guitar · Adrian Smith - lead and rhythm guitar · Steve Harris - bass · Nicko McBrain - drums.

Produced, engineered and mixed by Martin Birch, assisted by Bruce Buchhalter and Frank Gibson. Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound. Recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau; mixed at Electric Lady Studios, New York. Sleeve illustration by Derek Riggs; sleeve and design concept by Derek Riggs, Iron Maiden and Rod Smallwood. Photography by Moshe Brakha. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.

Personnel and studio credits are sourced from Discogs release 1846534, the UK original, and apply to the recording rather than to this pressing. The producer, publisher and copyright lines are independently corroborated by this copy's own label, quoted above.

Condition, from the photographs

A photograph cannot grade a record - this is a description of what is visible, not a grade.

Sleeve: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no splits or seam separation visible in these shots.
Vinyl: light surface marks and handling sheen catch the light. No visible deep scratches, warping or edge damage in these photographs. The labels are clean and unmarked.

Nothing on this page comes from playing the record. No Goldmine grade is claimed for it, or any other. I have no record of where this copy came from.

What is settled, and what is not

Confirmed. Israel and EJ 240200 are certain from the label and the rear sleeve. The fetched version list holds three Israeli entries and only two are 1984 vinyl LPs - and those two are, on paper, the same record twice:

How the other candidates were ruled out

Candidate	Verdict
11063721	Matches on both things it says about itself. Its note adds one line to the shared text - “White Iron Maiden logo.” - and this logo and title are white. Its two recorded matrices, `240200 A Q THERES ONLY ONE UM STERLING` and `240200 B Q THATS FUCK UM STERLING`, are this copy's two strings with the same number-to-message pairing.
4508189	Ruled out on the logo. Its notes carry the CBS Tel Aviv line and nothing else, and it records no matrix at all - so its own primary photograph on Discogs is the only thing it offers to check, and in it the `IRON MAIDEN` logo is gold. That photograph is the evidence here; the entry's text does not mention the cover. Its one identifier, rights society `ACUM`, is also on this label - but every Israeli release carries `ACUM`, so it corroborates the country and separates nothing.
13582612	Ruled out on format: a cassette, `TC-POWER1` / `EJ 240200-4`.

Why the white logo is allowed to carry a Confirmed, when it is one entry's note against another entry's photograph. The skill's test is whether a detail distinguishes the candidate from the others that survived, and here there are only two survivors, they are otherwise textually identical, and the second entry exists because someone found a difference worth a second entry - the note names it. Checking that note against 4508189's own picture turns it from an assertion into a comparison. The matrices are the second, independent mark: 4508189 records none, so it cannot match them, but it also cannot contradict them, and on their own they would leave this Probable. It is the logo that closes it.

Standing caveat: this method cannot exclude a pressing absent from Discogs. The version list is incomplete by construction, so a single surviving candidate is a best match, not a proof of uniqueness.

Open, and genuinely unresolved: which face Discogs thinks is which. 11063721 files 240200 B Q THATS FUCK UM STERLING under Side-A and 240200 A Q THERES ONLY ONE UM STERLING under Side-B - the opposite of this copy, where the A string is on the face carrying the printed tracklist label and the B string on the face carrying the eye image. Two readings fit and the photographs cannot choose: either that entry's side fields were filled in the wrong order, which is a common enough slip, or the copy it was written from had its labels applied to the wrong faces, which is a real thing that happens and which the Yugoslav copy in folder 113 turns out to be an example of. Nothing about the identification turns on it - the strings and their pairing are what match - but it is recorded rather than smoothed over.