Any Experts On Continental Pressings Out There?

[Guest JJMMWGDuPree]

I just paid a little over my budget for a Sophie Pascal EP on account of I liked the cover better than the usual one. It turns out that this was a Dutch rather than a French pressing. So here's the thing. The record looks to be in excellent condition, as does the sleeve, but the sleeve isn't a sleeve, it's basically a piece of paper 7" x 14" folded in half. It's not glued and never could be because there's no overlap, and the disc itself has a jukebox sized hole. Now I'm not going to swear to this, but I'm pretty sure that all by other Dutch singles have the little autochanger sized holes and regular sleeves.

Right now I'd be thinking I'd just bought a counterfeit except, why would anyone go to the expense of running off a disc that they know won't even fetch $20?

[Rob Wigley]

I just paid a little over my budget for a Sophie Pascal EP on account of I liked the cover better than the usual one. It turns out that this was a Dutch rather than a French pressing. So here's the thing. The record looks to be in excellent condition, as does the sleeve, but the sleeve isn't a sleeve, it's basically a piece of paper 7" x 14" folded in half. It's not glued and never could be because there's no overlap, and the disc itself has a jukebox sized hole. Now I'm not going to swear to this, but I'm pretty sure that all by other Dutch singles have the little autochanger sized holes and regular sleeves.

Right now I'd be thinking I'd just bought a counterfeit except, why would anyone go to the expense of running off a disc that they know won't even fetch $20?

$20 to buy $2 to make $20 x 500 = $10,000 profit =$9,000

there MUST be a demand an EP has 4 tracks so there could be other people wanting it

If someone was bootlegging one record a month $9K x 12 =$108 K a year nice little earner isn't it !

No royalties to artist / record companies / music publishers

Makes it all worth while- nind you they moan when the CPS catches up with them

Rob

Edited March 26, 2010 by Karen and Rob Wigley

[Guest Dante]

I have no idea about Dutch pressings, but down here in Mexico there were several tipes of pic sleeves. There were your usual paper sleeves, hard cardboard ones and the folded in half paper you're describing. Probably the same happens over there. you can even find the same record with two tipes of sleeves, so you probably picked up a different variation.

[Benji]

I just paid a little over my budget for a Sophie Pascal EP on account of I liked the cover better than the usual one. It turns out that this was a Dutch rather than a French pressing. So here's the thing. The record looks to be in excellent condition, as does the sleeve, but the sleeve isn't a sleeve, it's basically a piece of paper 7" x 14" folded in half. It's not glued and never could be because there's no overlap, and the disc itself has a jukebox sized hole. Now I'm not going to swear to this, but I'm pretty sure that all by other Dutch singles have the little autochanger sized holes and regular sleeves.

Right now I'd be thinking I'd just bought a counterfeit except, why would anyone go to the expense of running off a disc that they know won't even fetch $20?

'unglued' sleeves are not uncommon for dutch 60s releases. BTW, what makes you think it's dutch? Can you post up a scan?

[funkyfeet]

Sold about 20 Elvis Presley Australian Ep's just like this recently, cheap and nasty to save money comes to mind.

[Soul Shrews]

I was told the sleeves like you mention were used for the Belgian market................as for the holes some Dutch have large and some not

Cheers Paul

[Sebastian]

Unglued so-called "wrap-around" sleeves were very common in Scandinavia during the 60s/70s as well.

[Anoraks Corner]

Unglued so-called "wrap-around" sleeves were very common in Scandinavia during the 60s/70s as well.

Also in Japan, although the insides usually have a brief artist history and the song lyrics on them...ideal for karaoke!