I recently acquired this portuguese promo of this single, I was wondering if anyone has seen copy of this particular sleeve before ? In all my years of collecting I've never seen it...anyone else own a copy?
Thankyou for all your feedback. Could I ask who the "renowned collectors" maybe? & where they get their info from? I don't dis-agree, it would be nice to know how they come to know & where they get the facts thats all. To me, if it is a fake someone has gone to a lot of trouble to print a one off as ive never seen another...& why (maybe only 1?)..if the reason to produce a fake/counterfeit
would be to make money, surely, you would make a lot more?
cheers.
Two huge italian collectors I talked with about this record. Their comments when asking about why they think it is a counterfeit:
"Actually all sleeves from Portugal are well known by at least 15 years. Since portouguese records are a little bit expensive record dealers were in all radio stations to collect all they found. Graphic is from another album, another single and another country. This should be enaught even without buying the record to valuate paper, print quality and so on..."
"I'm agree with *****, and I also add that this item is fake because it has a sharp perfectly new cover, because it comes with full stamps on front cover/back cover/labels which is just an exaggeration if it was real, because the cover is made to look like a rare one (considering it reprises characteristics from the Dutch one) just to make it more attractive for potential buyers and... last but not least: because all these items are coming from the same dealers from Portugal/Mexico/Spain/Italy and their behavior has now been catalogued and well known"