Folder 76
Netherlands
Made in Holland by EMI on the shell - an explicit manufacturing statement, read off the plastic rather than inferred, and the string that excludes the two Made in EEC rows.
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 spine, multi-format block: PM 464 above a cassette icon and 238 7 90258 4, a CD icon and 538 7 90258 2, a vinyl icon and 038 7 90258 1
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Inlay rear panel: the eight titles, the barcode 0 77779 02584 8, 79 0258 4, a DOLBY SYSTEM device and an EMI logo
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Inlay rear panel, copyright line at native resolution: ℗ 1988 Original Sound Recordings made by EMI Records Ltd over © 1988 Iron Maiden (Holdings) Ltd - the 1988 legible in the © line, which is what separates this from 6358719
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Inlay manufacturing line: Marketed, manufactured and distributed by EMI over MADE IN HOLLAND
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Shell, side 1: clear plastic printed in white - 7902584, an EMI logo, Biem/Stemra, ℗ 1988 ORIGINAL SOUND RECORDINGS MADE BY EMI RECORDS LTD, the four side-one titles, a large 1, and Made in Holland by EMI
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Shell, side 2: the same printing with the four side-two titles and a large 2
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The photographs
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The object, and what marks it out
Sleeve, labels and inserts
- Shell - clear plastic with white on-body print, no paper label.
- Inlay - the standard artwork J-card with a lyric fold-out, English throughout.
- Condition - card creased at both spine folds with light rubbing to the front panel; shell clean and every printed line legible.
What distinguishes this pressing
Made in Holland by EMIon the shell - an explicit manufacturing statement, read off the plastic rather than inferred, and the string that excludes the twoMade in EECrows.© 1988on the card - the second exclusion, and the narrower one: 6358719 records© 1986. Native-resolution crop of IMG_1551; the ℗ line above it reads℗ 1988on both rows and separates nothing.BIEMandSTEMRAon the shell - the pair 34576879 records as its rights societies. STEMRA is the Dutch society, consistent with the manufacturing statement.- Price code
PM 464- recorded by 34576879 and by 21563755, and absent from the other two rows. Corroboration for the survivor, not a discriminator on its own. - Catalogue number
238 7 90258 4on the card and7902584on the shell - the match axis, and the split-numbering pattern 446708 also notes. It returns four rows.
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 elimination on two strings, each read at native resolution. The catalogue number returns four rows - three filed as Europe, one as Netherlands - and every one of them shares this copy's barcode.
The shell says Made in Holland by EMI. 446708 and 21563755 both record Made in EEC by EMI on the cassette, so both are out. Between the two that remain, 6358719's notes give © 1986 Iron Maiden (Holdings) Ltd. while this card reads © 1988 - a crop of IMG_1551 reads the year cleanly. 34576879 is what is left, and rather than merely surviving it positively records PM 464, BIEM and STEMRA, all three printed on this object, and its own twelve photographs show this shell and this card.
Worth recording as a cross-reference: folder 68 is still open on this exact axis. Its unsettled note asks for a sharp macro of its © line because 446708 and 6358719 record © 1986 and its own crop blurs on the digits. Here the same crop worked, and it decided the case - which is a fair argument that folder 68's open question is the right one and simply needs a better photograph.
One honest weakness: the separation of 34576879 from 6358719 rests partly on a year transcribed by a submitter onto the other row. If that © 1986 is a typo, the two rows are duplicate entries for one object and this would be Narrowed (2).
Standing caveat: a Dutch pressing absent from Discogs cannot be excluded.