Mercury Inner Sleeve Variations

A “Inner Sleeve”, a thin paper sleeve envelope which protects a vinyl record, had many advertisements or technical information printed on it. There were also many variations of the sleeves, and it's uncertain how many variations of the sleeves as a whole that came with Mercury (and subsidiaries) records ever.

Anyway, here are some of the variations in my collection.

Note: The innersleeves presented here are “generic” ones: custom innersleeves designed for specific albums (such as SRM-1-697 and SR-61024) are not included here.


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Variety Of Inner Sleeves

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[Living Presence A]
1956
for Living Presence
[Mercury A]
1956
for Mercury
[EmArcy A]
1956-1957
for EmArcy
[Wing A]
1956-1957
for Wing
[Living Presence B]
1958-
for Living Presence
[EmArcy B]
1958-
for EmArcy
[Mercury A]
1958-
for Mercury
[Mercury B]
1958-
for earliest stereo
[Mercury D]
1959-
for stereo
[Mercury C]
1959-1960
for Mercury
[Mercury C']
1960-1961
for Mercury
[Mercury E]
1961-?
for Mercury
[Mercury E2]
1961-?
for Mercury
[PPS A]
1960-?
for PPS
[PPS A1]
1960-?
for PPS
[LivingPresence B]
early 1960s
for Living Presence
[LivingPresence B1]
early 1960s
for Living Presence
[Philips A]
1962?
for Philips US
[Philips A1]
1963?
for Philips US
[Philips B]
early 1964-
for Philips US
[Philips B1]
early 1964-
for Philips US
[Philips B2]
late 1964-
for Philips US
[Philips B3]
late 1964-
for Philips US
[Philips C]
1966-?
for Philips US
[Mercury F]
1963-?
for general use?
[Smash A]
middle 1960s?
for Smash
[Smash B]
middle 1960s?
for Smash
[Mercury G]
1964-?
for Mercury
[Mercury G1]
1964-?
for Mercury
[Mercury G2]
1964-?
for Mercury
[Mercury G3]
1965-?
for Mercury
[Mercury G4]
1965-?
for Mercury
[Living Presence C]
1966?
for Living Presence
[Living Presence C]
1966?
for Living Presence
[Mercury H]
late 1960s
for Country
[Mercury I]
1967?
for Mercury
[Mercury J]
1968?
for Mercury
[Mercury/Philips/Vertigo A]
eary 1970s
for Mercury
[Phonogram A]
early 1970s
for Country
[Phonogram (Rock) A]
middle-1970s
for Mercury



MATSUBAYASHI 'Shaolin' Kohji <shaolin@rhythmaning.org>
Initially Published: June 09, 2002.
Last Updated: (none)