RARE THE BEATLES COLLECTION 1982, MFSL Half Speed Mastered Box set #20,040

Sold Date: December 12, 2017
Start Date: December 7, 2017
Final Price: $850.00 $750.00 (USD)
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The collection, the box, and the contents are in great condition. I purchased this new in a sealed box about 15 years ago. I know it was a few years before my daughter was born and she turns 12 soon. 

Believe it or not but I played one side of Magical Mystery Tour on a nice VPI table with Benz cartridge and basically put it up for display. The outer box is pristine as you can see in the pics. There is some minor discoloration of the metal which is normal after all of these years. There is some settling damage to the outer white sleeves (see pics) from the albums sitting in one place for years but the vinyl is pristine NM.  

See pictures. More pictures are available upon request. Please ask if you have any questions. A total run of 25,000 of these have been produced and were sold from 1982-1985. 

Each record is housed in a poly sleeve within a cover and then the actual album cover. There is a geo disc with a cover. The Geodisc cover has a slight tear as shown in the pics. 

The following is from Wikipedia:

The Beatles: The Collection is a vinyl boxed set of every Beatles album until '82 remastered at half speed from the original stereo master recordings, except for Magical Mystery Tour which was mastered from Capitol Records' submasters with the last three tracks in rechanneled stereo.

Released with much anticipation in early October 1982, The Collection was lauded by critics and Beatles fans worldwide for the superb sound, and sold-out completely within the first year. Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) pressed a second run of the Beatles Boxed Set for a total production run of 25,000 over the next two years or until October 1985.[2]

Each album was pressed on black vinyl by the Victor Company of Japan. The album covers were replaced with photographs of tape boxes and log sheet. The original album covers were included in a booklet which also featured a certificate of authenticity as this was a limited edition collection. Missing from this collection were all of the Beatles' singles, extended Play and a few miscellaneous tracks that did not appear on their original UK albums.