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| Sgt Pepper 1 Box Red Emi Parlophone Lettering; Sgt Pepper 1 Box RED | |
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| AurelianDE | Jun 21 2016, 02:53 AM Post #31 |
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That's fascinating. The red print -- if it is print -- is on top of the black? If the wear on the ring removes the black and shows pink or white, then black was on top of the pink. Those pink traces below the letters on side 2 can't be 'bleeding' because that would require a saturated colour during print. If too much colour is applied during printing, it might bleed (because the moisture can't be absorbed by the paper). The magnified image (great photo!) shows that the colour is diluted, not saturated, and you see spots of lighter and darker density. If a magenta colour (I think it's magenta, one of the basic colours of the printing process -- interestingly, yellow is another) is diluted to give a lighter hue, it's not the colour that's diluted, it's the density of the print. With a magnifying glass you should see the individual dots that create halftone images (the denser the dots, the darker the colour). In your image, you see patches of lighter and darker colour and I doubt that a higher resolution will bring out the dots of the halftone screen. The name (Gerard Lever) seems to be written with a ballpoint pen and looks blueish. There should be a visible and feelable impression in the label, but even if it isn't there I'd guess that the pen used for it is quite different from the one used for the magenta. If a pen was used. Try it out on white paper, felt tip pen, similar dimensions, and magnify. If you get the same patchy impression that would be conclusive I think. Jae has another point that sounds very convincing to me:
As disappointing as it may be, the odds are against a printers' anomaly. Which doesn't mean that the yellow ones are fakes. They could be genuine. There are rare examples of yellow Odeon instead of white on German Electrola singles, for instance, so it's not unheard of. |
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| 1970grave | Jun 27 2016, 11:59 AM Post #32 |
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Hi Henry Do you have (or anyone else have) pics of the labels with yellow print EMI and Parlophone text |
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