Turandot

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Album Info

Release Date: 1955-10

Label: Decca

LABELS:
- Orange label with silver lettering / silver ring and groove around circumference
- "MADE IN ENGLAND" around circumference at 12 o'clock
- DECCA logo / "LONG PLAYING UNBREAKABLE MICROGROOVE full frequency range recording" above spindle hole
- ffrr 'ear' logo at 2 o'clock
- Purchase Tax Code at 3 o'clock
…on LXT.5128, LXT.5129,LXT.5130 Tax Code ”N”
- Matrix numbers upside down at 3 o'clock: ARL. 2813, ARL.2814, ARL. 2815
- Catalog Numbers: LXT.5128, LXT.5129 and LXT.5130 are located at 3 o'clock
- Circular "LONG PLAYING 33⅓ RPM" logo at 10 o'clock

SLEEVE:
- Fully laminated flipback sleeves for each cat #
- DECCA mono logo on front and back
- ”Decca Long playing 33⅓ R.P.M. Microgroove Full Frequency Range Recording" on front cover (bottom)
- Liner notes in English on back
- Sleeve notes in English only (uncredited)
- The Decca Record Company Limited, London // Made in England
- Thin spine with no text on it
- "Printed in England WRR/55.10” on back of sleeve of LXT 5128, LXT 5129 & LXT 5130 on bottom flipback

CATALOG NUMBERS:
- LXT 5128 on sleeve and the same for LXT 5129 & LXT 5130
- LXT.5128 on labels and the same for LXT.5129 & LXT.5130

RUNOUT:
-are stamped
- CB/CA ARL 2810/5-2A at 6 o'clock
- UK/UU/U/BA at 3 o'clock
- RT/N at 12 o'clock
- 1/2 1 at 9 o'clock

Mispress! Sides are mixed up (by pressing)
Record LXT.5128 contains side 1 and 6
Record LXT.5129 contains side 2 and 5
Record LXT.5130 contains side 3 and 4

Libretto booklet "Ricordi" is in Italian, held in a custom pocket on the inside of the box.
Libretto printed in Italy Anno 1955 by G. Ricordi & Co. "ANNO MCMLV (Printed in Italy)"

Very similar to Giacomo Puccini, Inge Borkh, Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco, Alberto Erede - Turandot , but - on the front cover the lower part is different: "DECCA LONG PLAYING 33⅓ R.P.M. MICROGROOVE FULL FREQUENCY RANGE RECORDING" versus colored with white; - on labels: The "N" below the ear is positioned higher, + others