Folder 149
Europe
Catalogue/barcode 0190295849498 -- printed twice on the rear panel (as text beside the Parlophone roundel, and as the barcode's own digits) and matches this row's registered master (1190187) and title exactly. The identifying mark for the box; not evidence of anything about its contents.
What the box says
Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.
Barcode and Other Identifiers: Matrix / Runout
As Discogs records them for release 10316982. Green: in my collection (0 of 6). Red: missing.
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (A-side, etched) | BH65507-01 A1 0190295852351-A CB |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (B-side, etched) | BH65507-01 B1 0190295852351-B CB |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (C-side, etched) | BH65511-01 A1 0190295852344-A CB |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (D-side, etched) | BH65511-01 B1 0190295852344-B CB |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (E-side, etched) | BH65511-02 C1 0190295852344-C CB |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (F-side, etched) | BH65511-02 D1 0190295852344-D CB |
Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 7 of them
Front panel: IRON MAIDEN logo, THE COMPLETE ALBUMS COLLECTION 1990-2015, and a printed list of all thirteen album titles across three lines, shot through the intact outer shrinkwrap
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Rear panel: a 4x3+1 grid of thirteen numbered album-cover thumbnails, each captioned with its title, above a copyright/barcode block and the Parlophone roundel
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Rear panel, native-resolution crop of the copyright block: (P) 2017 the copyright in this compilation is owned by Parlophone Records Ltd., A Warner Music Group Company., (C) 2017 Iron Maiden LLP., Printed in the EU., (C) 2017 Iron Maiden LLP. 0190295849498, www.ironmaiden.com, and a barcode reading 0 190295 849498
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Box edge, native-resolution crop: two individual album spine labels foil-blocked in white, FEAR OF THE DARK above NO PRAYER FOR THE DYING, seen through the shrinkwrap
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Shrinkwrap, native-resolution crop over the same edge: two codes printed on the film itself, 0190295852344 and 0190295852351 -- both distinct from the box's own catalogue number/barcode 0190295849498 and read here only because they are on the wrap, not the carton
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Front panel, top-edge crop: IRON MAIDEN / THE COMPLETE ALBUMS COLLECTION 1990-2015 repeated, with an unbroken shrinkwrap seam running across the shot
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Native-resolution crop on the Parlophone roundel and catalogue number 0190295849498, with the same shrinkwrap seam continuing across it without a break
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The photographs
image0.jpg1 of 7READ FROM
The object, and what marks it out
Box and shrinkwrap
- Carton -- a rigid card box, maroon ground, gold/blue foil
IRON MAIDENlogo on the front panel and gold text elsewhere; front carries the title and a printed list of the thirteen albums, rear carries a thumbnail grid of the same thirteen plus the copyright and barcode block. - Shrinkwrap -- a clear film wrapped around the entire carton. Every seam photographed (front top edge, the spine-label edge, and over the Parlophone roundel) is continuous and unbroken; no split, tear or re-sealed patch is visible in any of the seven frames.
- Contents -- not visible. The box has not been opened, so nothing here describes the thirteen records, their pressings, or their condition.
What distinguishes this box
- Catalogue/barcode
0190295849498-- printed twice on the rear panel (as text beside the Parlophone roundel, and as the barcode's own digits) and matches this row's registered master (1190187) and title exactly. The identifying mark for the box; not evidence of anything about its contents. Printed in the EU.-- the only origin statement on any photographed panel; no country, plant or pressing-territory mark is visible beyond it.(P)/(C) 2017 ... Parlophone Records Ltd., A Warner Music Group Company/Iron Maiden LLP-- the rights-holder credit printed on the rear panel, corroborating the 2017 release year already on the front.- Two codes printed on the shrinkwrap film (
0190295852344,0190295852351) -- distinct from the box's own catalogue number and read here only because they sit on the wrap itself; nothing establishes what they record, and they are not treated as identifying the box. - Individual spine labels for each album, foil-blocked on the box edge (
FEAR OF THE DARK,NO PRAYER FOR THE DYINGphotographed) -- consistent with a slipcase/carton built around thirteen individually-titled compartments, but this is a description of the carton's printing, not a claim about what is inside each one.
Other versions of this box
- US, BMG, catalogue
538276501. Not held here. Release 10391176
Thirteen albums, and the recording credits
What the box states it contains
- 1No Prayer For The Dying
- 2Fear Of The Dark
- 3The X Factor
- 4Virtual XI
- 5Brave New World
- 6Rock In Rio
- 7Dance Of Death
- 8Death On The Road
- 9A Matter Of Life And Death
- 10Flight 666 - The Original Soundtrack
- 11The Final Frontier
- 12En Vivo!
- 13The Book Of Souls
A thirteen-album box issued in 2017, printed as collecting the studio and live albums from No Prayer For The Dying (1990) to The Book Of Souls (2015) -- unverified, since this copy is sealed. Nothing inside it has been seen: no pressing, matrix or condition claim below extends past the carton.
Condition, from the photographs
A photograph cannot grade what's sealed inside - this describes only the box and shrinkwrap that are visible, not a grade of the records within.
- Box: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no crushing, splitting or water damage visible in these shots.
- Contents: the shrinkwrap is intact, so the records inside have not been seen. Their presence, pressing and condition are unverified.
Nothing on this page comes from opening the box. 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
The box is identified; its contents are not, and cannot be while the seal holds. Title, artist, release year and the catalogue/barcode number 0190295849498 are all printed on the carton and agree with this registry row's title, year and master (1190187) exactly -- that part is not in doubt.
The release is settled too, and by the one string the photographs establish. Master 1190187 carries two versions: 10316982 (Europe, Parlophone, catalogue 0190295849498) and 10391176 (US, BMG, catalogue 538276501). The number read off the rear panel at native resolution is the first of those and cannot be the second, so one row survives and rel names it. Nothing here was typed from memory -- a wrong release id would name a real, different pressing of this box.
Separately, and more fundamentally: every photograph here is of the outside of a sealed carton. The thirteen records inside -- their presence, their pressings, their condition -- are unverified and unverifiable until the shrinkwrap is broken. Opening the box is a separate decision this filing does not make. Nothing in ev, phys or dist above claims otherwise.
What would settle the contents: opening the box -- a separate decision this filing does not make.