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Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage Orig NY Blue Note MONO Van Gelder Records Jazz LP EX+  - No Earmark - Blue Note did not use the Earmark After 1966 - this record is after the sell to Liberty. 

One thing common to all original Blue Note pressings from foundation through to the sale of the company in 1966 is the presence of the Plastylite pressing plant handwritten cursive letter “P” in the run-out both sides. All original Blue Note records were pressed by  Plastylite (just one exception, see below)  and  have an ear each side. None is found after 1966 when pressing of Blue Note records was transferred to other plants by Blue Note’s new owners, Liberty Records.

For a large number of titles, the presence of the “ear” in the run out is the guarantee of an original pre-1966 Blue Note pressing.  Just one exception to the Plastylite rule has been found (thanks to Russian collector Alex). In the early ’60s, exceptionally, Blue Note  commissioned a rival plant, Abbey Mfg., to press additional copies of BLP 1595 Cannonball  Adderley’s Somethin’ Else. These copies are  NY / 47W63rd label, without “ear”,  but with all other etchings present. The Abbey copies are identifiable by a small circular depression around the spindle hole  on side two only – characteristic of pressing dies used by Abbey Mfg. at that time.

There are  around forty Blue Note titles in the Blue Note catalog, examples are 4193, 4196, 4204, 4206, 4209, and many others approaching the 4250 cut-off, which had been prepared for release prior to the sale of Blue Note, but were pressed subsequent to the company sale to Liberty. The original first pressing is without ear.

Their are presses that have the earmark but are not first press

COVER / VINYL

EX / EX+ (Shinny - One Small Paper Mark) 

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All Record / LP sales outside continental USA over $39.99 and combined sales over $40 will ship Priority International with Insurance