GENTLE GIANT - Three Friends - Vertigo 6360 070 - UK 1972

GENTLE GIANT - Three Friends - Vertigo 6360 070 - UK 1972

matt gatefold sleeve by Rick Breach without printer’s credit, with swirl inner bag, lyrics & credit printed in black lettering on first & second panel in inner spread, white Vertigo label with “small” spiral logo & outline “VERTIGO” just above spindle hole, black lettering, “ALL RIGHTS OF THE RECORD PRODUCER …” perimeter text along lower rim, without “Made In England” text beneath “℗ 1972” publication date & with an error on track 1 side B, listed as “Feel The Paint”, when it should be “Peel The Paint”;
• stamped matrix on Side A: 6360070  1Y//2 ▽ 420   1 1    7    4;
• stamped matrix on Side B: 6360070  2Y//2 ▽ 420   1 1    4   04;
• value for LP in mint condition: £ 225

- 2nd UK issue without printer’s credit, has a white Vertigo label with “small” spiral logo & outline “VERTIGO” just above spindle hole, black lettering, without “Made In England” text beneath “℗ 1972” publication date & track 1 side B, listed as “Peel The Paint”;
• value for LP in mint condition: £ 150

- 3rd UK issue without printer’s credit, has a white Vertigo label with “small” spiral logo & outline “VERTIGO” just above spindle hole, black lettering, with “Made In England” text beneath “℗ 1972” publication date & track 1 side B, listed as “Peel The Paint”;
• value for LP in mint condition: £ 100

- 4th UK issue without printer’s credit or “Printed and made by Howards Printers (Slough) Ltd., England.”, has a full colour “spaceship” Vertigo label designed by Roger Dean, “small” spiral logo & small outline “VERTIGO” to the bottom of label, light blue, green & yellow circle, “ALL RIGHTS OF THE RECORD PRODUCER …” perimeter text along upper rim, with “331/3” to the right of spindle hole, just above “Made in England”;
• value for LP in mint condition: £ 40