Sold Date: August 20, 2023
Start Date: August 13, 2023
Final Price: £31.00 (GBP)
Bid Count: 3
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This is a master plate for the 1977 Eagles hit song Take It Easy. The playing area inwards is the same size as a 7" singles. So overall it's around 9" The playing area only has light marks and plays through lovely. The outer edges are a bit chewed up as you tend to get with these plates due to what they are made from. The VG+ grading is for the playing area.
Sorry about the reflections in the pics hard to avoid. This is a a fantastic collectors item. This is a single sided plate so another plate would be made to create a B side. Below is an explanation of how these plates are made which I found useful. This will be well packaged and sent with insurance.

Going to be listing some rare vinyl so please see my other items.
At the pressing plant, stampers (or plates) have to be created from the acetates.
Each acetate is coated with a thin layer of silver nitrate and washed in stannous chloride which is then electro-plated with nickel. Once this has set the two are seperated and the plate produced will be a negative of the acetate with ridges instead of grooves.
This plate is called the "father plate" or the "master plate", which is then oxidised, plated again and when set the two discs are seperated, this time producing a "mother plate". The "mother plate" is an exact replica of the lacquer acetate that was originally brought into the plant and is used to check for any errors in the plating process.
From this "mother plate" further "father plates" are created using the above process and these plates are known as the stamper plates as they are the ones that press the actual records out.
This lengthy process is gone through as the stamper plates wear out after so many pressings and with having a metal "mother plate" on the shelf this enables as many "father plates" to be pressed as required.

The two stamper plates (one for the A side the other for the B side) are fitted to the vinyl press in preparation for producing the finished product.