45worlds Forum - View Single Post - When is a foreign issue not?

19th Aug 2015, 11:13 PM
	TopPopper Member since Mar 2013 2612 Points	fokeman wrote: Nope! This record was sold in the UK as stated thrice before. Only Shanachie US made this record and wherever it ended up (this one in the UK), this is a US pressed record for "Worldwide". It wasn't (as I understand it) on general sale in the UK. We are looking at an import copy. Pointing out that this copy was on sale in the UK is fair enough, but unfortunately confuses the issue. Any record from any country could be imported and sold in any other country. The point is, the Canadian sleeve, I think, was prepared for Canadian buyers, for retail in Canada rather than USA, notwithstanding some will have been shipped abroad from Canada as export copies, which is normal. Those which stayed in the US were never housed in that sleeve - correct me if I am wrong. Fokeman - I'm sure you know loads more than me about this whole area, and this label too - I'm not trying to prove you wrong, just challenge the assumption. @ Scrough - Why don't I imagine the Canadian sleeve is an American release? Just from my own experience with records. It's not impossible, but do we know for sure either way? I can show you UK-pressed records in sleeves from other countries, which were certainly for sale in those countries, and not here. It's not a hard and fast rule, but it's what I tend to think in similar cases.