Counterfeit Guide
Pink Floyd — The Wall
SHDW 411 (UK) / CBS 96000 (UK) / Columbia PC2-36183 (US)
Last updated June 4, 2026
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Double album. UK original on Harvest SHDW 411. US original on Columbia PC2-36183. Inner sleeves feature artwork by Gerald Scarfe. The album was widely counterfeited both as bootleg live editions and as fake 'original pressing' copies.
Matrix / Runout
Genuine Harvest pressings carry precisely typeset labels and matching dead-wax codes across all four sides.
3 Tells That Reveal a Fake
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Inner sleeves: genuine copies have full-colour Gerald Scarfe artwork on all four inner sleeves with a specific matte finish. Counterfeits typically use a lower-resolution print with visible dot-matrix pattern under a magnifier and a slightly glossy finish.
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Label text alignment: on original Harvest pressings, label text is precisely typeset with consistent margins. Fake labels often show very subtle alignment drift — side titles and catalog numbers are fractions of a millimetre off-centre compared to an original.
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Vinyl thickness: the original double LP set is pressed on uniform-weight vinyl. Counterfeits often use mismatched vinyl weights across the four sides — feel the stiffness of each disc; they should be identical.
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