Counterfeit Guide
David Bowie — The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
RCA SF 8287
Last updated June 4, 2026
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The 1972 UK Ziggy Stardust on RCA SF 8287 has the orange RCA Victor 'dynaflex'-era label with the 'RCA Victor' logo and 'Made in England' rim text. The earliest sleeves show the laminated front with the 'K. WEST' sign in the Heddon Street photograph and the MainMan management credit. First pressings carry a specific RCA matrix with hand-etched suffixes and the laminated flipback sleeve.
Matrix / Runout
UK firsts carry RCA SF 8287 matrices etched as 1S/1S (or similar early suffixes) by hand. Counterfeits show uniform typeset runouts and wrong-era labels.
3 Tells That Reveal a Fake
- 1
The label is the later RCA International or tan label being passed as the orange RCA Victor first; the genuine first has the bright orange label with the correct rim credits.
- 2
The 'K. WEST' street sign in the cover photo is blurred or the whole sleeve looks low-resolution rather than the crisp tinted original litho print.
- 3
The runout is machine-typeset rather than hand-etched; genuine RCA cuts show hand-scribed matrix numbers with mastering suffixes.
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