Folder 82
Direct on-body printing rather than a paper label - the discriminator. 15093759 is recorded Paper Print; 12269714 is not, and its photographs show this construction.
Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.
Inlay front panel: the fur-maned Eddie head on a violet ground - the alternate cover, not the album's standard artwork
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Inlay rear panel: SIDE ONE 1- to 4- and SIDE TWO 5- to 8-, the boxed KENT ELEKTRONİK SAN VE TİC A.Ş / İ.M.Ç. 6.Blok No:6302 Unkapanı / İstanbul block and 7 90258 4, with TCP / 2286 / STEREO at the spine
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Inlay inner panel: the band photograph in a yellow frame
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Inlay inner panel: a holographic foil panel reproducing the wise-man illustration
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Inlay Turkish notice and price: the copying prohibition and RAPAK • ₺8453.00
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Shell, side 1: clear plastic printed directly in white, no paper label - Iron Maiden / SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON, an EMI logo, TS-2240 beside a TSE diamond, STEREO, and the number 07498 beside the right-hand hub
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Shell, side 1, at native resolution: KENT ELEKTRONİK SAN.VE TİC.A.Ş. KB 89 • 34 • Ü • 008 • TCP • 2286 along the foot
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Shell, side 2: the same direct printing with the side-two titles and a B at the corner
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Paper Print; 12269714 is not, and its photographs show this construction.07498 beside the hub - the sharper form of the same discriminator: the identical five digits appear in 12269714's own shell photographs. It is part of the printing, not a per-copy stamp.KB 89 • 34 • Ü • 008 • TCP • 2286 - shared with 15093759, so it establishes the family and excludes the 1988 row 6299160 (KTB 88.34.Ü.008.2286), but it does not separate the reissue from the repress. Recording it as a discriminator would have chosen the wrong row.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.
A photograph cannot grade a record - this is a description of what is visible, not a grade.
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.
Settled on how the shell was decorated, which is the only thing that separates these two rows. This copy and folder 78 carry the same card, the same alternate artwork, the same price code and the same registration string. On the string alone they would be the same release, and folder 57's dossier - written before this tape arrived - treated that string as the deciding evidence.
It is not quite. Discogs records 15093759's format text as Paper Print; 12269714 carries no such note and its five photographs show a clear shell with the text laid straight onto the plastic and 07498 beside the hub. This copy is the second kind: no label, same five digits.
So the shelf's three Turkish cassettes now sit on three different rows - folder 64 on 6299160 (1988, 88.34.Ü.008.2286, standard cover), folders 57 and 78 on 15093759 (1989, paper label), and this one on 12269714 (1993 repress, direct print). The registration string groups the last three together and the shell construction splits them.
Standing caveat: a Turkish repress absent from Discogs cannot be excluded.