Folder 307
UK
The storage box. Redeemed empty against the ten pack vouchers and never sold. Filed from one photograph of the front, which shows heavy edge wear.
What the box says
Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.
Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 6 of them
Front, top: the IRON MAIDEN logo in red
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Front, banner across the middle: THE·FIRST·TEN·YEARS, over Eddie's head on crossed bones, held by chains hanging from two Eddie door-knockers
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Front, two medallions on the chains: 1980 on the left, 1990 on the right
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Front, centre panel under an EDDIE scroll, twenty titles in seven lines: RUNNING FREE · SANCTUARY · WOMEN IN UNIFORM / TWILIGHT ZONE · PURGATORY · MAIDEN JAPAN · RUN TO THE HILLS / THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST · FLIGHT OF ICARUS · THE TROOPER / 2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT · WASTED YEARS · RUNNING FREE (Live) / RUN TO THE HILLS (Live) · ACES HIGH · STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND / CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS · THE EVIL THAT MEN DO / THE CLAIRVOYANT INFINITE DREAMS
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Front, foot: 666 above a banner reading UP THE IRONS, with a football in the middle
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Front: no catalogue number, label name, barcode or country anywhere on the panel
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The photographs
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The object, and what marks it out
Box
- Box - square, with the First Ten Years artwork across the whole front on a black border. Only the front was photographed.
- Contents - none claimed. The box was redeemed empty; the packs on the shelf are catalogued as their own copies.
- Size not established - the box was made in a 12" version and a CD version, and one front-on photograph with nothing beside it for scale does not say which this is.
What distinguishes this box
- The front artwork itself - the
THE·FIRST·TEN·YEARSbanner, the1980/1990medallions and the twenty song titles of the ten packs, listed together on one panel. UP THE IRONSwith a football, at the foot of the panel.- No catalogue number on the front. Whether the back or the sides carry one is unknown from this photograph.
Ten double packs, and the recording credits
Made to hold
- 1Running Free · Sanctuary
- 2Women In Uniform · Twilight Zone
- 3Purgatory · Maiden Japan
- 4Run To The Hills · The Number Of The Beast
- 5Flight Of Icarus · The Trooper
- 62 Minutes To Midnight · Aces High
- 7Running Free · Run To The Hills
- 8Wasted Years · Stranger In A Strange Land
- 9Can I Play With Madness · The Evil That Men Do
- 10The Clairvoyant · Infinite Dreams
A storage box for the ten First Ten Years double packs of 1990, made in a 12" version and a CD version. It was never sold: each pack carried a numbered voucher, and the ten vouchers were posted to EMI for the box. Discogs lists no release for it, so nothing here carries a Discogs id or a Discogs price. The packs themselves are catalogued as their own copies under their own rows; this row is the empty box.
Condition, from the photographs
This describes the box itself - an empty storage box, with no records in it to grade.
- Box, front: heavy wear along all four edges of the black border, where the board shows through, worst along the left and top. Scuffs and light creasing across the lower blue sky, and a white scuff on the right-hand banner tip beside
YEARS. The artwork itself is complete and legible. - Not photographed: the back, the sides and the inside, so their condition is not recorded.
Nothing on this page comes from playing a record or breaking a seal. 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
This is the First Ten Years storage box; nothing more specific can be said, and there is no Discogs release to say it against. The front artwork identifies it on its own.
What would add to it: photographs of the back, the sides and the inside would show any catalogue number, credit or country printed there, and one shot with an LP or a CD beside the box would settle whether this is the 12" or the CD-sized version.