Folder 55
Canada
Made in Canada Under Licence by Capitol Records-EMI of Canada Ltd. plus the Mississauga address - direct manufacturing statement.
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 — 9 of them
Inlay spine: C4 over 90258, beside a cassette device
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Inlay rear: barcode 0 7777-90258-4 8, boxed XDR over EXPANDED DYNAMIC RANGE, DOLBY HX PRO, Capitol dome logo, EMI logo
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Inlay reverse: C4-90258 above the Zomba publishing block and 'Capitol' Is A Registered Trade Mark Of Capitol Records, Inc.
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Shell, side 1: Iron Maiden / Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, 1, Dolby device, HX PRO B NR, boxed XDR, Capitol dome logo, C4 90258, and the full Made in Canada Under Licence by Capitol Records-EMI of Canada Ltd. 3109 American Dr.,Mississauga, Ont. L4V 1B2
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Shell, side 2: the same block with 2; MADE IN CANADA moulded into the shell body
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Inlay inner: band photograph with personnel credits
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Inlay inner: Derek Riggs artwork panel
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Inlay inner: tracklist with writer credits and production credits, closing (C) 1988 EMI Records Ltd. / (C) 1988 Iron Maiden (Holdings) Ltd.
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Inlay reverse, thanks list and Iron Maiden F.C. address block - identical setting to folders 54 and 56
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The photographs
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The object, and what marks it out
Sleeve, labels and inserts
- Shell - black plastic, horizontal textured pattern, silver print,
MADE IN CANADAmoulded into the body. Indistinguishable from 54 and 56. - Inlay - glossy colour J-card, blue inner panels in yellow and white.
- Case - standard clear library case.
- Condition - cleaner than folder 54: the card is creased at the folds but carries no writing and less edge wear.
What distinguishes this pressing
Made in Canada Under Licence by Capitol Records-EMI of Canada Ltd.plus the Mississauga address - direct manufacturing statement.MADE IN CANADAmoulded into the shell body - independent second country statement.- Catalogue number
C4 90258- the match axis; two rows. - Black shell with horizontal pattern - matches 29212252's note; leans only, since 4627984 describes no shell.
- Nothing separates this copy from folders 54 and 56. Every printed and moulded string is identical across the three. Recorded explicitly so the three dossiers are not mistaken for three different pressings.
Eight tracks, two sides, and the recording credits
Side A
- A1Moonchild
- A2Infinite Dreams
- A3Can I Play With Madness
- A4The Evil That Men Do
Side B
- B1Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
- B2The Prophecy
- B3The Clairvoyant
- 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.
The same release as folders 54 and 56, and the same two-row ambiguity. Country is stated on the object in print and again in the moulding, so Canada is not in question. C4 90258 returns 29212252 and 4627984, identical in date, barcode, manufacturer and descriptors.
This copy's black horizontally-patterned shell matches the shell note on 29212252, which is why that row leads. It cannot confirm, because 4627984 records nothing about its shell and therefore cannot be excluded on that axis. Promoting on a rival's silence would be manufacturing certainty out of an unfilled catalogue field.
Having three copies does not help. Duplicates multiply the same evidence rather than adding a new axis; separating 29212252 from 4627984 needs a detail that differs between the rows, and no such detail is printed, moulded or stamped on any of the three.
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 4627984, 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.