Blue Snapcase

I've always said that you have to have patience to collect records. Sure, you can pay silly amounts and buy a lot of rare things quickly, but the real fun is just waiting, sometimes years, for things to pop up for sale. A few years ago I madea conscious decision to collect as many different versions of the first Snapcase 7" as I could find. I last picked one up in 2021, and here we are four years later and I have managed to find one of the elusive blue vinyl copies.

I had seen the blue vinyl a couple of times over the years, but I knew that this one was much rarer than most of the colours. So when one popped up for sale I grabbed it without hesitation. This now takes my collection to five copies.

I stll have an old Victory discography which states that the pressing info of this record was as follows:

1003 Red
  460 Opaque Yellow
    85 Lime Green
    51 Blue
    12 Orange
    44 Transparent Yellow-Orange
    38 Yellow
      3 Opaque Yellow-Black
      8 Opaque White
      8 Clear

The thing that never made sense to me about this pressing info was that there are 460 'opaque yellow' (which is the one I have) and then there are also apparently '38 yellow' without a clear explanation of how the two colours differ. Also, there are a lot of copies with the second press glossy sleeve with red lettering in clear yellow vinyl (as per my picture) but these do not seem to be included in the pressing info, so I assume the above info is for the first pressing only.

Realistically, there is probably only one more than I have a chance of finding, which would be a 'transparent yellow-orange' in a yellow sleeve. Other than that, the rarer colours are stupidly rare. A white or a clear would be great, although at this point seems highliy unlikely. But hey... never say never.