DAVID BOWIE - The Man Who Sold The World

Item Description

Vinyl,
LP Album Unofficial Release

The Japanese counterfeit that became available about 1979 was excellent. It also had a textured sleeve but the embossed textured was more cross hatched. The counterfeiters also cropped the original artwork. As a result the clock on the mantlepiece is truncated and the figurine is closer to the right border of the sleeve. The colour is not as deep as the original. The font used on the label is quite different to that on the Mercury original. The numerals in the matrix number on the vinyl runout are more widely spaced out than on the original and the font is larger. It is an excellent counterfeit and being Japanese the cardboard is better and more durable than the UK original! (Source: http://www.larkin.net.au/bowie/mwstw)