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Folder 65

Israel

The Portrait logo on both shell faces - the discriminator. Portrait is a CBS imprint, and its appearance on an EMI title is the oddity 11425737 records as Portrait labels.

Catalogue
TCEMD 1006
Label
NMC Music Ltd.
Released
1988
Confidence
Confirmed
Why this grade

the shell states the country in two scripts - MADE IN ISRAEL with the Hebrew תוצרת ישראל beside it - and carries the Israeli rights society ACUM/BIEM. What lifts this above a single-candidate match is 11425737's note, which reads Made in Israel. **Portrait labels.** and describes a manufacturing oddity this copy has: the shell is printed with the Portrait script logo, a CBS imprint, on an EMI album. That is a release-specific physical detail recorded by Discogs and present on the object, not a property of Israeli releases as a class

Reference
Discogs 11425737
Worth
DKK 261, the lowest asking price (no recorded Discogs sale)
On sale now
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A photograph of pressing 65, Israel

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 — 4 of them

Inlay, laid flat: standard cover artwork, IRON MAIDEN / SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON, with TCEMD / 1006 / STEREO at the spine, a Dolby device and a barcode across the rear panel

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Inlay interior: the full credits - Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Martin 'Disappearing Armchair' Birch, Recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany, Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, New York

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Shell, side 1: white shell printed in blue - EMD 1006-4, the four side-one titles, ACUM/BIEM, a Dolby device, the Portrait script logo beside IRON MAIDEN / SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON, a circled 1, and תוצרת ישראל over MADE IN ISRAEL

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Shell, side 2: the same printing with the four side-two titles, a circled 2, and EMD 1006-4 repeated at the right

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

  • Shell - white plastic, screwed, printed directly in blue on both faces with no paper label, in a typewriter face quite unlike the EMI shells.
  • Inlay - glossy card, English throughout, with the full album credits inside.
  • Condition - inlay creased at both folds and browned along the top edge; shell clean, printing unrubbed.

What distinguishes this pressing

  • The Portrait logo on both shell faces - the discriminator. Portrait is a CBS imprint, and its appearance on an EMI title is the oddity 11425737 records as Portrait labels.
  • MADE IN ISRAEL with תוצרת ישראל - an explicit manufacturing statement in two scripts, read off the object.
  • ACUM/BIEM - the Israeli rights society. Corroborates the country and nothing finer: every Israeli release of the period carries it.
  • Catalogue number TCEMD 1006 on the inlay, EMD 1006-4 on the shell - the sleeve and the tape disagree by design, as they do on several EMI cassettes. Discogs files the release under the sleeve's number.
  • No plant or date code is visible on the surfaces photographed.
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 on the Portrait labels. Country is stated on the object twice over and the catalogue number matches the one Israeli row in the master. On its own that would be Probable - a single surviving candidate is not proof. What carries it further is that Discogs describes a specific manufacturing feature for this row, Portrait labels, and this copy has it: a CBS imprint's logo printed on an EMI album's shell, which is not something an Israeli release carries as a class.

Standing caveat: an Israeli pressing absent from Discogs cannot be excluded by this method.