Sold Date: October 29, 2022
Start Date: November 12, 2021
Final Price: $185.00 (USD)
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Original Release with "Love Me Do" and "PS I Love You".
The LP and cover are guaranteed to be genuine and original.
Cover Condition: Some light wear to front of cover resulting in some spots of color loss, as pictured.  Back cover has writing indicating singer as pictured. Seams have edge wear with some breaks but are intact except a 2 1/2 inch split at right side of bottom seam.
Record Label Condition: Labels are clean with two scratches to side 1 label and mild wear to black background on side 2 as pictured. 
Record Play Testing: cleaned on a VPI 16.5 machine. All songs play tested on a high end system with preamp set to mono. SIDE 1 Visual (VG+) with a few scuffs. Audition: (NM-) Silent surfaces except: 3 light tics on "Misery" 4 very light tics on "Chains" 2 low background tics on "Love Me Do" Sound quality is excellent with "Love Me Do" in particular sounding incredible. SIDE 2 Visual (VG+) Audition (NM-) Silent surfaces except: 3 quick low level pops at the end of "P.S. I Love You" 2 low level pop/tics on "I Know A Secret" 2 low level tics on "A Taste of Honey"
Characteristics which verify as authentic:
Cover: George's shadow is prominent as pictured. Picture of band is highly detailed. All lettering is crisp including the word Honey in "A Taste of Honey" as pictured.  Lacks any reference to stereo or a brown border, both if present indicate a counterfeit.  VJ circle logo on front and correctly sized bracketed logo on back. Cover was manufactured with the 1/4 inch interior flap always present on real VJs as pictured. There is a stamp on the bottom right of rear cover of a cross in a circle.
Record Label: VJ circle logo of proper size. Rainbow circle colors are all present and vibrant as pictured. Lettering is crisp and clear. "The Beatles" is above the spindle hole.
Record Runout Stampings: Side 1 Stamped Audiomatrix. 63-3402 in script Stamped MRT (upside down). The letter A is stamped at top of runout. Side 2 Stamped Audiomatrix. 63-3403 in script Stamped MRT (smudged). The letter A is stamped. The letters RA in script.
Will ship insured in a record mailer with polystyrene reinforcement to prevent bending.