Counterfeit Guide
The Rolling Stones — Let It Bleed
Decca SKL 5025
Last updated June 4, 2026
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The 1969 UK Let It Bleed on Decca SKL 5025 has the Robert Brownjohn cake-sculpture gatefold and came with a fold-out poster insert. The earliest stereo pressings carry the unboxed Decca label with the 'Made in England' rim text. A genuine first must include the poster and show the correct gatefold with the cake artwork and the hand-etched Decca matrices in the dead wax.
Matrix / Runout
UK stereo firsts carry SKL 5025 with hand-etched matrices such as ZAL-9618/9619 and the appropriate Decca tax codes. Counterfeits show uniform typeset runouts and missing posters.
3 Tells That Reveal a Fake
- 1
The fold-out poster is missing or a modern reproduction on bright white paper rather than the original stock.
- 2
The label is the later boxed Decca design being passed as the unboxed first, or the rim text is the wrong typeface.
- 3
The cake gatefold artwork is dull or pixelated, and the runout is machine-typeset rather than the hand-etched SKL 5025 matrix.
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