Sold Date: May 2, 2022
Start Date: April 28, 2022
Final Price: $795.00 (USD)
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BEATLES 1968 WHITE ALBUM ULTRA LOW# A 0276989 SWBO-101 RARE UNBANDED FIRST L.A. PRESSING EARLY J40/J41 MATRIX WITH ALL 7 LABEL ERRORS COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOS & POSTER

THE BEATLES White Album 2-LP Gatefold vinyl set 1968 First Press SWBO-101 Stereo
  *****Please read everything carefully below so you know exactly the rarity you are buying*****

Embossed and mega low number 0276989 Original 1968 U.S. Los Angeles Calif first pressing of The Beatles 'White Album'. Incredible low very early J40/J41 Matrix stamps, which are documented as the very first pressings after George Harrison remastered the 'Compressed White Album'. In addition, this is the rare and highly sought after pressing containing all 7 printing errors on the labels. Upon release of the album, John Lennon noticed these mistakes and had them corrected immediately on future pressings but not before some of these extremely rare error copies had already entered the marketplace. These very rare unbanded LPs are only found on the J40/J41 LA stamping !!

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The very glossy UNBANDED LPs are VG, with scratches/scuffs, which you'd surely expect being 54 years old, but NO skips. The labels are near mint, crisp and clean, with NO writing and NO stickers. The inner/outer spines are completely intact and look pristine (very rare to be this nice !!) The spectacular cover is NM/MINT with NO seam splits, NO WRITING on the front, back or inside the sleeve, and NO WRITING on any of the record labels !!
It will arrive with original NM/MINT thick-stock portrait photos, NM original poster & EX rare original inner sleeves !!
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*** A machine stamped * indicates that the record was pressed at the Los Angeles California plant
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If you love Beatles history and you like to see the rarest White Album of all time, take a look at: #  185319619964 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is as nice as you'll see for sale, at this price, with NM/MINT Cover, the rare J40/J41 matrix, unbanded LPs with ALL 7 label errors, plus NM/M photos/poster. All the photos you see above are completely undoctored and free from any Photoshop, and are of the EXACT treasures you will receive !
No White Album is perfect, but this cover is near pristine. The cardboard used in the making of The White Album was extremely poor and susceptible to the seams easily separating, fading, soiling, ring wear, and both of the spines just disintegrating. Most of you who look to buy these know that 99% of White Albums in circulation are weak at best. This is your chance to purchase a stunning 7-error, J40 White Album as the low numbered cover is NM/MINT with NO splits, NO writing, NO stickers and NM/MINT inner/outer spines which is so very impossible to find, some 54 years later.
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Wax Etchings: Side 1: SWBO-1-101-  J40  with * (LA pressing)
Side 2: SWBO-2-101-  J41  with * (LA pressing)
Side 3: SWBO-3-101-  J40  with * (LA pressing)
Side 4: SWBO-4-101-  J40  with * (LA pressing)
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 Here are all 7 song errors on the labels:
1. "Bungalow Bill" instead of "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"
2. "Obladi Oblada" instead of "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da"
3. "Rocky Racoon" missing the second "C" in Raccoon
4. "Goodnight" instead of "Good Night"
5. "Revolution No. 1" instead of "Revolution 1"
6. "Revolution No. 9" instead of "Revolution 9"
7. "Why Don't we do it in the road" without the question mark (?)
Error #7 without the question mark, is the rarest of all the 7
If you are ever lucky enough to find another for sale ever again, make sure error #7 is among them !! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here's very invaluable information on how The Beatles White Albums were numbered, and the meaning behind all the sequences...

The first 25 White Albums were numbered with an 'A' prefix and then a series of zeros preceding the number (e.g. A0000009). There are always seven digits following the 'A' so if it was a single digit number it would be preceded by six zeroes or if it was a two digit number it would be preceded by five zeroes. It is not known what the 'A' was indicative of (it may mean printed in America or Apple but neither is confirmed).

Numbers 26-99 were three digit numbers preceded with a zero and no prefix.

Numbers 100 through approximately 209,999 were preceded with the correct number of zeroes to make them a seven digit number
(with no letter prefix ever used on these early numbers)

Beginning around 210,000 to up near 590,000, they were preceded by a zero and had an 'A' prefix.
Next set of copies from 590,000 to 1,350,000 remain at 7 digits using a lead zero, with a large dot

The next batch from 1,350,000 up to 2,000,000 are prefixed with a thinner 'A' then used earlier
From 2,000,000 to around 2,250,000 most are prefixed with an 'A', and some with a large dot



From 2,250,000 up to 3,000,000 the numbers are prefixed with the abbreviation for number (i.e. No.) On some of these the 'o' in No. is raised with the period below it instead of beside it.

For the final numbers over 3,000,000 the numbers are prefixed with a wide 'A'

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Shipping is LIGHTNING-FAST anywhere in the US via USPS 2/3 Day Priority Mail shipped in a large box !! Because this is so rare and so sweet, I will offer this anywhere around the globe via USPS Global Shipping