Sold Date: January 3, 2025
Start Date: September 23, 2024
Final Price: $379.00 (USD)
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Offering is original owner’s RCA VICTOR LPM-1254, Mono Pressing (1956), self-titled, debut LP album “Elvis Presley”, 33-1/3 RPM LP, black vinyl record. Per the album’s front cover, the album is A “New Orthophonic” High Fidelity Recording.  Specific descriptions are as follows:

·        Album Cover – CONDITION: VERY GOOD+. The front cover has retained all its original rich colors. The full-size color photo of Elvis shows no fading, stains, scratches or discolorations. The front cover has no markings and still has a nice glossy finish for an album of its age. The back cover has (1) an orange ink owner marking at the top and (2) faintly stamped vendor “House of Music etc.”, also at the top. The back cover shows mild age toning at the bottom, top, and sides with no stains or blemishes. The cover has one 1-3/4" seam tear / split in the top right corner (see photo no. 20). Its black lettered spine markings (1) “LPM-1254 Elvis Presley” and (2) the iconic RCA logo terrier mix “Nipper” and “LPM 1254” are clear, bright, “like new” (see photographs nos. 17-19 ). 

·        Vinyl – CONDITION: VERY GOOD+. Seldom played, its vinyl playing surfaces are very clean and bright with a total of 1-2 very faint, minimal light hairlines. There are no scuffs or scratches. Vinyl has a rich, attractive gloss. Labels: Side 1 – has a 1.5” scratch mark cutting across Nipper’s gold gramophone (photo no. 13), minimal spindle wear, no discoloration or stains. Side 2 – VG+ condition, no scratches, minimal spindle wear, no discoloration or stains.

·        Specific Identifiers:

(1)  Barcode:

Matrix / Runout (A-side label): G2PP-1282 6S (see photo no. 7)

Matrix / Runout (B-side label): G2PP-1283 5S (see photo no. 8 )

(2)  Label Variant – “New Orthophonic” High Fidelity at right, under side marker. ELVIS PRESLEY in small print above spindle hole.

(3)  Track 6A (“Just Because”) with revised credit on label (earlier issues credited “P.D.” – “Public Domain”)

(4)  Rim Text – Radio Corporation of America - Camden, N.J. – Made in U.S.A.

(5)  First Catalog Number (LPM-1254) on album jacket. Second catalog number (LPM 1254) on labels.

Purchased at The House of Music, New Rochelle, NY. (stamped, see photos no. 4 & 5) Always stored upright, kept in dry, non-smoking homes. Please review the twenty-four (24) photographs to assist in your assessment of the items’ condition. The photographs are an integral part of the descriptions used for the cover and vinyl record.

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