Sold Date: July 14, 2018
Start Date: February 23, 2018
Final Price: £99.00 (GBP)
Seller Feedback: 1450
Buyer Feedback: 5

Box-style sleeve with both band name and album title embossed.
Dark pink lettering instead of dark purple (see pictures for comparison).
"WWA 008" catalog number on a sticker, stuck over the original Vertigo 6360 050 catalog number.
Sleeve Printed and made by Howards Printers (Slough) Ltd.
Misspelled "Sweet Leaf" as "Sweet Life" on back of cover.

Here's some background info: This is a rare, rather uncommon transitional copy of the album. It was released in 1973 when Black Sabbath left the Vertigo label and moved on to WWA-records. The latest Vertigo spaceship-labeled versions came in a box style cover with a pink lettering and the misspelled "Sweet Life", rather than the dark purple lettering on the box sleeve which came with early Vertigo swirl-labeled pressings. When Black Sabbath moved over from Vertigo tot WWA, the very first early issues of this album did NOT yet come in the more common flipback sleeve with the WWA-logo on the front . Yet, they came with old stock Vertigo box sleeves with the pink lettering and the misspelled "Sweet Life". There is a sticker on the back of the cover with the WWA 008 catalog number, which was stuck over the Vertigo catalog number, above the VO Price code.

In original Vertigo box cover with sticker and WWA number Matrix / Runout (Etched into first deadwax area of runout on both sides of the record): WWA 008 Matrix / Runout (Scratched out on both sides): 6360050 Matrix / Runout (Side 1 - Stamped in second deadwax area - "1" and "5" before "3" are both mirrored): 1Y//2▽420 15 3 04 Matrix / Runout (Side 2 - Stamped in second deadwax area): 2Y//1▽420 1711 04 Other (Side 1): WWA 008.1 Other (Side 2): WWA 008.2 Price Code: VO Tracklist A1 Sweet Leaf A2 After Forever A3 Embryo A4 Children Of The Grave B1 Orchid B2 Lord Of This World B3 Solitude B4 Into The Void

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