Milton Wright - Friends and Buddies OG check
luck
4,077 Posts
I'm usually a pro at this, but this is a 1975 record, and I'm less sure about manufacturing methods this late in the game. What I'm looking at is probably a 90s reissue. It's got a semi-gloss jacket, is "white inside," has an inner sleeve with rounded corners, and the tell-tale signs of concentric label application.
At the same time, most of those elements might have crept into the industry as modernization and cost-saving manufacturing replaced, say, the paste-ons and square-cornered inners. Compounding the evidence is a legitimately age-worn cover replete with ring-wear, old-style pricing code on the spine, and - I wince when I mention this - a moderately-failed smell-test. There is no "re" in the dead wax, but there is an indecipherable signature.
What say you folks?
At the same time, most of those elements might have crept into the industry as modernization and cost-saving manufacturing replaced, say, the paste-ons and square-cornered inners. Compounding the evidence is a legitimately age-worn cover replete with ring-wear, old-style pricing code on the spine, and - I wince when I mention this - a moderately-failed smell-test. There is no "re" in the dead wax, but there is an indecipherable signature.
What say you folks?
Comments
You should read my "ten reissue commandments" that I posted here a few years back. I'm still proud of that one. It includes moderately deep reflections on vintage versus modern shrinkwrap.