Netherlands

Sleeve, labels and inserts

• Standard jewel case, opened, with the booklet present.
• Two catalogue blocks on one copy, and they do not conflict. The rear inlay is the later budget printing (CDEMS 1534, with a barcode); the booklet's back cover is the original pairing (CDP 7 90258 2 / CDEMD 1006, no barcode). Neither candidate row lists CDEMD 1006 at all - 4530682 carries CDP 7 90258 2, 0777 790258 2 4 and CDEMS 1534, 370275 only the last two - so the booklet's number is a fact about the object that this master records against neither row, rather than a thing that separates them. The two blocks are still not in conflict with each other: they are the original pairing and the later budget printing on one copy.
• Printed in Holland on the inlay and MADE IN HOLLAND on the disc, while the same inlay line is headed UK:. Recorded as printed; it is why the country cannot be read off the object here.
• Folder 100 is a second copy of the same release. Nothing photographed separates the two - the matrix does: this copy's ring reads 1-3-6-NL, folder 100's reads 1-2-10-NL, two different run pairs of the same pressing rather than one object counted twice.

What distinguishes this pressing

• The digit sequence 1-3-6-NL, read directly off the disc - the actual discriminator. It is 4530682's own recorded variant 3, character for character (allowing for an abbreviated full stop); 370275's one recorded matrix, CDP 7 90258 2 AR@2, is a different string entirely.
• CDEMS 1534 with a barcode on the rear inlay - the match axis on the packaging. Two rows carry it, which is why this stood at Narrowed (2) until the ring was read.
• The blank I: and F: slots in the catalogue block - corroboration, and worth stating precisely. 4530682's notes describe this exact layout: Under the barcode on the back cover there are places for alternative Italian and French catalog numbers, but they are blank, followed by UK:CDEMS 1534. A native crop of this copy shows an empty I: row over an empty F: row, then UK:CDEMS 1534, then Printed in Holland - the layout that note describes, slot for slot.
• BIEM/STEMRA and LC 0542 on the disc - recorded on 4530682 and not on 370275, agreeing with the matrix reading.
• MADE IN HOLLAND on the disc - does NOT settle the country by itself. EMI's Uden plant pressed for the UK market too, and this same inlay carries a UK: prefix beside Printed in Holland; it is the -NL matrix suffix, not the country statement, that ties this copy to the Uden pressing.
• CDP 7 90258 2 and CDEMD 1006 on the booklet - CDP 7 90258 2 is listed by 4530682 and not by 370275, and is shared with a dozen other European rows besides. CDEMD 1006 is listed by neither candidate, so it distinguishes nothing here at all.
• Barcode 0777 7 90258 2 4 - carried by both candidates and by many other pressings of the album. No help at all.

• Case/inlay: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no cracks or splits visible in these shots.
• Disc: light surface marks and handling sheen catch the light. No visible deep scratches or disc-face damage in these photographs.