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20th May 2016, 6:49 PM
	Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3735 Points Moderator	I found four of these test pressings at a boot fair the other week... (along with what turned out to be an Argo label one) ...I'd seen a couple of them around before, but never grabbed them as they don't usually have sleeves, and often only have the matrix numbers hand-written on the labels (sometimes with title, maybe artist occasionally), ...so it's a bit of a punt as to what they may be, unless you recognise a Decca "ZAL" matrix prefix (See what this site has done to me!!!), anyhow, I did recognise the matrix, and thought I'd speculate, and turns out one of them is for an SXL series (Wahoo!!!).... except, it's one record of a double album set, and to make matters worse, it's in "changer format" style: That is: My disc has sides 2 and 3 of 4 sides, and the one I don't have has sides 1 and 4 (buggleration!). And so, it seems are the others so arranged (I have succeeded in finding a clutch of Decca test pressings for half of each complete album - nuts. My question is, though, Can I enter them as is, and take the complete info for the entire package in each case from elsewhere online (all sides), and then wait and hope that someone else adds the stock issues complete with all labels... ... or do I just hold fire until someone does add them, then add my scans after? It would be pretty uninspiring to look at just my scans, as they are just those plain, but lurid pink jobbies with the black border and dashes around the edge (Like the Decca Demo label patterns for 45s), and just hand-written biro on these. (As a note, earlier Decca test pressings I've seen on line have only half the label pink, and the other half a turquoise-y blue) Op-onions pleasings.