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The c-v and I were just discussing it, and I hadn't been really clear on which packaging you meant -- outer or inner.
Paper inner sleeves is all he recalls in Toronto. Me too, also in Ontario. (I mention the province because apparently there was some rare pressing of some early Beatles album done only in Quebec and sold only in Quebec, which it has since been discovered was made from some tapes that have not been since remastered and are infinitely better ... or something ...)
What he suggested was two googles.
First, google Columbia with the actual number of your record. Like a serial number of something I guess. He said you might be surprised at what you might find.
Second, google things like Columbia audiophile 60s -- he said there are forums he's seen (but isn't personally interested in so can't recommend any) where people yammer on at great length about just such obscure things ... whether the Japanese pressing was better than the British ... etc.
He was a heavily music-invested teenager in the late 60s, I was a teenager but not very invested. My very first LPs were Freddy and the Dreamers, Simon & Garfunkel Bookends and Leonard Cohen the Suzanne album, in that order, and the last two at least were Columbia I think. I'm positive they were paper sleeves.
But neither one of us remembers an innter baggie-like thing with a perforated top!
What I have to get doing, having luckily never got around to doing it onto cassette, is recording my largish collection of 78s onto CD. Maybe you've inspired me.
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