Folder 274

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Disc reads MADE IN HOLLAND with BIEM/STEMRA and LC 0542, carrying the 0777 7 90258 2 4 number rather than CDP 7 90258 2

Catalogue: 0777 7 90258 2 4
Label: EMI
Released: undated on the copy itself beyond the 1988 copyright lines; Discogs carries no date for 6788608
Confidence: Confirmed
Why this grade
Dutch-made EMI reissue of the 1988 CD, in the later 0777 7 90258 2 4 barcode livery with the original CDP 7 90258 2 / UK: CDEMD 1006 booklet. The disc reads MADE IN HOLLAND, BIEM/STEMRA, LC 0542 and 0777 7 90258 2 4; the tray card reads UK:CDEMS 1534, F: PM516 with I: left blank, and Printed in Holland; the mirror ring reads CDP 790258 2 AR. @ 1 . with 1-2-8-NL further round. Six Made-in-Holland rows on the master carry CDP 790258 2 / -NL rings, and the 1-2-8-NL stamper is recorded on two of them: 4530682 (Variant 2) and 6788608 (Variant 2, filed there as AR3 @ 1 . 1-2-8-NL, which looks like a typo for the AR. @ 1 . form its other five variants use). What separates those two is the tray card's French price box: 4530682's notes say both I: and F: are blank, while 6788608's notes give F: PM516 with I: empty, which is exactly what this card prints. The dotted @ 1 . form of the ring also matches 6788608's recorded variants and not 4530682's undotted ones. 3248976 is the 1994+ repress with 1-3-n-NL rings and SID codes, 24629240 is 1-3-18-NL with a blank F:, 3673568 lists only 1-1-n and 1-2-1/1-2-2 rings, and 2593292 carries BIEM S.I.A.E. and CDEMD 1006 on its card. The owner's phone note gave the ring as CDP 790258 2 AR. @ 1 . 1-2-8-NL, and the photographs bear it out character for character, so it decided nothing on its own. No SID code is visible on the hub. The version list is never complete, so an uncatalogued Dutch pressing sharing this stamper and card can't be ruled out.
Reference: Discogs 6788608
Median sale: DKK 53
Sale range: DKK 27-86
On sale now: 1, from DKK 65
Last sold: 4 December 2023

What the record says

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

Read off the play side's inner mirror ring under raking light, in two frames. IMG_6206 shows, in dot-matrix lettering after a small filled square, CDP 790258 2 AR. @ 1 -- a dot after AR, no 7 between CDP and 790258 -- then, just past the 1, a single small round dot, ., and then a filled square and a bar. The same frame shows a second run of characters at the bottom of the ring, too blurred there to read. IMG_6209 is a closer frame of that run under better light and reads 1-2-8-NL in stamped outline lettering with a small stray tick above the 8. Joined in the order Discogs files them, the ring is CDP 790258 2 AR. @ 1 . 1-2-8-NL. No IFPI code is visible on the clear hub in IMG_6206.

CDP 790258 2 AR. @ 1 . 1-2-8-NL — not among the 6 matrix entries Discogs records: an undocumented stamper.

Barcode and Other Identifiers: Matrix / Runout

As Discogs records them for release 6788608. Green: in my collection (0 of 6). Red: missing.

✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 1)	`CDP 790258 2 AR. @ 1 . 1-3-8-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 2)	`CDP 790258 2 AR3 @ 1 . 1-2-8-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 3)	`CDP 790258 2 AR. @ 1 . 1-3-14-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 4)	`CDP 790258 2 AR. @ 1 . 1-2-11-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 5)	`CDP 790258 2 AR. @1 1-3-13-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 6)	`cdp 790258 2 ar @1 1-3-11-nl`

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 9 of them

Front booklet in a jewel case: IRON MAIDEN / SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON artwork, left spine grooved

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Back tray card through the case: tracklist, PRODUCED, ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY MARTIN BIRCH, barcode block top right, ℗ 1988 Original Sound Recordings made by EMI Records Ltd, © 1988 Iron Maiden (Holdings) Ltd., EMI logo bottom right

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Barcode block on the tray card: 0777 790258 2 4 above the bars, 0 7777 90258 2 4 below, then a row of boxes I: (blank) / F: PM516, UK:CDEMS 1534, Printed in Holland, and sideways Place of manufacture as stated on label / Marketed and Distributed by EMI with an EMI logo

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Tray card bottom right: EMI logo over UNITED KINGDOM

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Back page of the booklet, out of the case in a plastic sleeve: tracklist, PRODUCED, ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY MARTIN BIRCH, top right CDP 7 90258 2 / UK: CDEMD 1006 / STEREO, same ℗/© 1988 lines, EMI logo

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Disc label: silver disc, black print, EMI / UNITED KINGDOM logo, boxed block STEREO / 0777 7 90258 2 4 / BIEM/STEMRA / MADE IN HOLLAND, Compact Disc Digital Audio logo, LC 0542, tracklist, PRODUCED, ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY MARTIN BIRCH, ℗/© 1988 lines; blue tray with a clear eight-spoke hub

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Mirror ring, raking light: small square, CDP 790258 2 AR. @ 1, a round dot, a square and a bar; a second blurred run at the bottom of the ring; no IFPI on the hub

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Mirror ring, closer and better lit: 1-2-8-NL in stamped outline lettering

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The photographs

IMG_6199.jpg1 of 9READ FROM

The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

Standard jewel case with a blue tray and clear hub
Silver disc with black print; front booklet and back tray card; the booklet was photographed out of the case in a plastic sleeve
The tray card has light scuffing and small white rubs along the barcode block and the bottom edge

What distinguishes this pressing

Disc reads MADE IN HOLLAND with BIEM/STEMRA and LC 0542, carrying the 0777 7 90258 2 4 number rather than CDP 7 90258 2
Tray card is the UK:CDEMS 1534 / Printed in Holland card with F: PM516 printed and I: blank
Booklet still carries the original CDP 7 90258 2 / UK: CDEMD 1006 back page
Ring is CDP 790258 2 AR. @ 1 . with 1-2-8-NL: no 7, dotted AR. and @ 1 ., no +, no CAPITOL JAX, no :n:n code

Eight tracks, and the recording credits

Tracks 1-4

1Moonchild
2Infinite Dreams
3Can I Play With Madness
4The Evil That Men Do

Tracks 5-8

5Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
6The Prophecy
7The Clairvoyant
8Only The Good Die Young

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

Produced, engineered and mixed by Martin Birch. Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, New York. Recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich. Sleeve illustration, concept and design by Derek Riggs (with Rod Smallwood). Inner-sleeve photograph by Ross Halfin. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.

Personnel and studio credits are sourced from Discogs release 576952, the UK original, and apply to the recording rather than to this pressing. Where this copy's own packaging carries the producer, publisher or copyright lines, they are quoted in the evidence above.

Condition, from the photographs

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

Case/inlay: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no cracks or splits visible in these shots.
Disc: light surface marks and handling sheen catch the light. No visible deep scratches or disc-face damage in these photographs.

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

Settled by the tray card's printed F: PM516, which 6788608 records and 4530682 (the only other row with a 1-2-8-NL ring) records as blank, with the dotted AR. @ 1 . ring form matching 6788608's variants.