Folder 57
Turkey
89 • 34 • Ü • 008 • TCP • 2286 on both shell faces - the discriminator. It matches 15093759's KTB 89.34.Ü.008.TCP.2286 exactly and differs from 6299160's KTB 88.34.Ü.008.2286 in two places at once.
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 — 6 of them
Inlay, laid flat: the front panel carries not the album's standard cover but a fur-maned Eddie head with a metal clamp across the muzzle, biting masonry, on a blue ground
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Inlay spine: IRON MAIDEN over SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON, with TCP / 2286 / STEREO at the foot and an EMI logo at the head
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Inlay, boxed manufacturer block: KENT ELEKTRONİK SAN VE TİC A.Ş / İ.M.Ç. 6.Blok No:6302 Unkapanı / İstanbul / Telefon : 527 95 18, with 7 90258 4 printed beneath it
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Inlay: SIDE ONE 1- to 4- and SIDE TWO 5- to 8-, the album's eight titles in English, in the album's running order
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Shell, one face: pale label with IRON MAIDEN / SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON, an EMI logo, KTB, 89 • 34 • Ü • 008 • TCP • 2286, the Kent Elektronik name and Unkapanı address again, TS-2240 beside a TSE diamond, and STEREO. A yellow banderole sticker over the top right corner reads KTB K / KCU / 0089645
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Shell, the other face: the same printed label, without the banderole
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The photographs
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The object, and what marks it out
Sleeve, labels and inserts
- Shell - smoke-grey plastic with a printed paper label on both faces, screwed rather than welded.
- Inlay - glossy card J-card, English throughout, with a band photograph panel beside the tracklist.
- Banderole - a yellow Turkish tax/registration sticker on one shell face, serial
KCU 0089645, intact and unbroken. - Condition - inlay creased along both folds with a scuff at the head of the spine; both shell labels clean and fully legible.
What distinguishes this pressing
89 • 34 • Ü • 008 • TCP • 2286on both shell faces - the discriminator. It matches 15093759'sKTB 89.34.Ü.008.TCP.2286exactly and differs from 6299160'sKTB 88.34.Ü.008.2286in two places at once.- The alternate front artwork - the second discriminator, and the reason the catalogue number alone would have picked the wrong row. 15093759 is recorded with
Alternate cover art; nothing about 6299160 says so. KENT ELEKTRONİK SAN VE TİC A.Ş, İstanbul - the Turkish manufacturer, printed on the inlay and again on both shell labels. It establishes the country from the object rather than by inference, but it is shared by the Turkish rows and separates none of them.TS-2240beside a TSE diamond - the Turkish Standards Institute mark. Recorded because a standards number is the kind of detail that is often release-specific; no Discogs row for any Turkish version records it, so there is nothing to compare it against.- Banderole serial
KCU 0089645- a per-copy tax serial, not a per-release one. Quoted for provenance, useless for identification.
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, and settled against the obvious answer. Matching on the catalogue number alone points at 6299160, the 1988 Turkish issue whose catalogue field literally reads TCP 2286. Two details read off this copy say otherwise: the shell's registration string carries the year code 89 and the TCP segment, matching 15093759's recorded identifier exactly, and the front panel is not the standard cover, matching that same row's Alternate cover art note.
The two agree, they come from different surfaces, and each independently excludes 6299160 - which is what a discriminator has to do to earn Confirmed. The third Turkish row, 12269714, is a 1993 repress recording no identifier at all and is excluded by the year code alone.
What would overturn it: a Turkish pressing absent from Discogs carrying the same 89.34.Ü.008 registration. Standing caveat - this method cannot exclude a pressing nobody has catalogued.