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Folder 48

Poland

Catalogue number 591, printed on the insert's spine edge - matches exactly two entries in the master version list, both Poland / Poker Sound, and no others.

Catalogue
591
Label
Poker Sound
Released
1988
Confidence
Confirmed
Why this grade

catalogue number 591, country and label (Poker Sound) match two identical entries in the committed version list; nothing in the photographs or that list distinguishes which one this copy is. Pinned by the owner on 2026-09-18. The photographs on their own get no further than the narrowing above; the owner has this cassette in hand and has gone through the surviving candidate pages copy by copy, and identifies it as Discogs 9393003. The grade rests on that reading rather than on anything a reader can check off the images in this file

Reference
Discogs 9393003
Worth
No recorded Discogs sale
On sale now
None listed
A photograph of pressing 48, Poland

What the record 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 — 5 of them

Insert front cover: 'IRON MAIDEN', „SEVENTH SON A SEVENTH SON”, 'SUPER QUALITY', 'POKER' card-suit logo

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Insert rear panel: tracklist with running times, catalogue number 591 printed on the card's spine edge, a ZAiKS over BIEM rights-society stamp, 'STEREO', a second 'POKER' logo, 'SUPER QUALITY'

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Insert spine, blue title strip: SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON -- the title given correctly here, while the front panel of the same card gives it as SEVENTH SON A SEVENTH SON, without the 'OF'

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Insert front cover, alternate crop: same artwork and 'POKER' branding as IMG_1278

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Insert rear panel, alternate angle: same tracklist, catalogue number and rights-society stamp as IMG_1279

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The photographs

IMG_1278.jpg1 of 5READ FROM

The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

  • Shell - clear plastic, unlabelled; no printed shell text, tape-type mark or Dolby logo visible.
  • J-card insert - a single folded card: glossy colour reproduction of the album artwork on the front panel, a blue-banded title strip on the spine, and a white tracklist panel with track timings on the rear.
  • Rear panel print - orange/red 'POKER' playing-card-suit device (twice), 'SUPER QUALITY', 'STEREO', and a small ZAiKS over BIEM rights-society stamp.

What distinguishes this pressing

  • Catalogue number 591, printed on the insert's spine edge - matches exactly two entries in the master version list, both Poland / Poker Sound, and no others.
  • 'POKER' card-suit logo, matching the 'Poker Sound' label credited on both surviving candidates.
  • ZAiKS rights-society stamp on the rear panel - Poland's mechanical rights society - corroborating the country independently of the catalogue number.
  • The title is printed two different ways on one card - correctly as SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON on the spine, and without the 'OF' as SEVENTH SON A SEVENTH SON on the front. Both surviving candidates carry a submission note describing exactly this discrepancy, which ties this copy to the pair on a release-specific printing fault rather than on the catalogue number alone.
Eight tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

  1. A1Moonchild
  2. A2Infinite Dreams
  3. A3Can I Play With Madness
  4. A4The Evil That Men Do

Side B

  1. B1Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
  2. B2The Prophecy
  3. B3The Clairvoyant
  4. B4Only 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. 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.

  • Case/inlay: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no cracks or splits visible in these shots.
  • Shell: light surface marks and handling wear are visible. No visible warping, tape spillage or shell 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 owner on 2026-09-18 -- the closing paragraph of this section says so, and the grade above follows it. What comes first is the photographic case exactly as it stood before that, present tense and all: where it says this copy stops at Narrowed, it means the photographs stop there, which is still true and is why the candidates are still listed.

Narrowed to two, and the check that was supposed to settle it has now been run. The catalogue number 591 on the insert spine and the 'POKER' card-suit logo match the label 'Poker Sound' exactly, and the ZAiKS rights-society stamp on the rear panel corroborates Poland independently of the catalogue number. The committed version list holds exactly two entries sharing this country, label and catalogue number - Discogs ids 9393003 and 29028433 - and every field it records for them is identical.

This file previously said the duplicate-listing hypothesis "can't be established from here". Both release pages were fetched and compared on 2026-08-27, which is what that open case named as the settling step. They carry the same country, label, catalogue number and format, both with no release date, and their submission notes are word-for-word identical: "Title given correctly as 'Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son' on spine, incorrectly as 'Seventh Son A Seventh Son' on front." Two independently submitted entries with byte-identical notes is strong support for one release listed twice - but it is not a difference, so it cannot separate them, and the grade stays Narrowed (2).

That note did buy one thing the identification did not have before: a release-specific corroboration. The discrepancy it describes is visible on this copy's own J-card (IMG_1278) - SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON on the spine, SEVENTH SON A SEVENTH SON on the front. Until now the match rested on catalogue number, label and country; it now also rests on a printing fault the candidates themselves record.

The owner identifies this copy as release 9393003. That is recorded in the candidate list above rather than in this file's header, because it rests on ownership rather than on anything read off the object - and a header that named one release while the grade said Narrowed would be a claim the photographs do not support. If Discogs ever merges the two entries, this folder resolves on its own.

Cassettes carry the least release-specific evidence of any format in this collection, and this copy is a plain case of it: there is no run-out or deadwax equivalent, and the shell itself carries no printed matrix, tape-type or Dolby marking at all - every legible detail comes from the J-card insert. Probable would already be the honest ceiling with a single surviving candidate; with two indistinguishable candidates this settles at Narrowed instead.

Standing caveat: this method cannot exclude a pressing absent from Discogs.

Pinned by the owner, 2026-09-18. Everything above is what the photographs support on their own, and it is left standing unedited. On top of it the owner, holding the cassette and reading the candidate release pages against it, identifies this copy as Discogs 9393003, and the folder is graded on that. It is an owner's judgement, not a new detail in the frames: withdraw it and the case reverts to the narrowing above.