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Mirror ring 24483-CD-0238 -- matches neither row. 13408308 records 12/27/2018 10:17.AM#32288 IFPI LN09 3327284 01 and a second variant 2/27/2018 10:17.AM#32288 3327284 01; 25951006 records SONOPRESS 58169627/538427112 21 for both its variants.
What the record says
Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photo named beside it, except where the source column says otherwise - those rows come from the record itself, by reading it or by playing it, and each says which.
Mirror ring photographed after the copy was opened, across five frames. The large dot-matrix line reads 24483-CD-0238, with IFPI LY89 in small type beneath its opening digits (ring-2.jpeg, ring-3.jpeg, ring-5.jpeg). Elsewhere on the same band: 4050538427110 -- the package's barcode -- (ring-4.jpeg) and 26-126-19-2 (ring-1.jpeg). The frames show the strings separately, so their order around the ring is not recorded here. No mould SID on the clear hub was legible in any frame.
Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 9 of them
Sealed, front through the shrink-wrap: the standard cover art with the IRON MAIDEN logo and SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON printed on the card, and a round black sticker on the wrap reading THE STUDIO COLLECTION around the top, ORIGINALLY RELEASED and 1988 in red in the middle, and REMASTERED around the foot
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Sealed, rear through the wrap: the eight titles MOONCHILD • INFINITE DREAMS • CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS / THE EVIL THAT MEN DO • SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON / THE PROPHECY • THE CLAIRVOYANT • ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG and Produced, Engineered and Mixed By Martin Birch.; BMG in yellow above the Sanctuary S device with Sanctuary under it; a vertical barcode block at lower right
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Rear, foot at native resolution: a three-line yellow copyright block whose left half is too soft to read through the wrap and whose right half reads ...in this sound recording is owned by Iron Maiden LLP / ...a BMG company. © 2019 Iron Maiden LLP. / ...Of Applicable Laws. Made in USA. 538427112
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Barcode corner at native resolution: the digits under the bars read 4 050538 427110; beside the block, BMG and the Sanctuary S device with Sanctuary, and the line ends ...den LLP / ...n LLP. / ...38427112 of the same copyright block
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Mirror ring: 26-126-19-2 in dot-matrix lettering, with a short barred block to its right
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Mirror ring: 24483-CD-0238, and beneath its opening digits, in small type and partly crossed by a moulding line, IFPI LY89
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Mirror ring, the opening of the same line: 24483-CD over IFPI LY89
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Mirror ring: 4050538427110 -- the barcode digits, unspaced
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Mirror ring, closest frame of the SID: IFPI LY89 under 24483-
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The photographs
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The object, and what marks it out
Sleeve, labels and inserts
- Card package -- a printed card sleeve with the cover art on the front panel and the icescape on the rear. Both rows sharing its catalogue number record it as a
Digipak. - Arrived sealed, since opened -- the package photographs were taken through the original shrink-wrap, with the Studio Collection hype sticker on the wrap rather than on the card; the ring photographs were taken after it was opened.
- Condition -- the wrap is creased and gathered along the edges; the card beneath looks bright with square corners. The inside panels and the disc's playing surface were not photographed.
What distinguishes this pressing
- Mirror ring
24483-CD-0238-- matches neither row. 13408308 records12/27/2018 10:17.AM#32288 IFPI LN09 3327284 01and a second variant2/27/2018 10:17.AM#32288 3327284 01; 25951006 recordsSONOPRESS 58169627/538427112 21for both its variants. - Mastering SID
IFPI LY89-- the second, independent axis. 13408308 recordsIFPI LN09, 25951006 recordsIFPI LP 73. 4050538427110on the ring -- the barcode stamped into the disc, consistent with the538427112package. It shows the disc is of this issue, not that it never left this particular card.- Catalogue number
538427112,Made in USA.and barcode4 050538 427110-- what this copy shares with both rows. It is why this is a third pressing of a catalogued number rather than an unrelated disc. - The Studio Collection hype sticker -- shows the 2019 remaster series and nothing finer; neither row carries a note describing it.
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.
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
Neither row records this disc's ring 24483-CD-0238 / IFPI LY89. It settles the day one of them does, or the day this pressing is catalogued on Discogs under 538427112 with that ring -- at which point it becomes an ordinary identification against that row.