Island pink label and pink-rim vinyl labels.
How to identify one.

Island kept the same ILPS catalog number on every UK repress, so the number does not date a copy. The label design narrows the window, and the runout suffix, label typesetting, and sleeve printer confirm it. Changeovers overlapped, so a design can turn up a few months outside its usual dates.

1. Pink label with orange-and-black logo (late 1967 to mid-1969). Bright pink label with 'island' in large lower-case letters along the bottom. The 'i' is dotted with an orange-and-black circular logo. Collectors call it the pink 'eye' or 'eyeball' label.
2. Black block logo (about September to late 1969). A large stylised black 'i' sits beneath the spindle hole on the pink label. It lasted only a few months. Five Leaves Left (ILPS 9105) was one of a handful of albums first issued on it, and a few earlier titles were repressed with it.
3. White 'i' (late 1969 through 1970). A large white lower-case 'i' beneath the spindle hole, with 'Island Records Stereo' around the perimeter. It is the most common of the three pink designs.
4. Pink rim and palm tree (late 1970 to about 1975). A white-based label with a pink outer rim and a palm-tree logo, also called the sun-ray label. Bryter Layter (ILPS 9134) and Pink Moon (ILPS 9184) were first issued on it.
5. Orange label with blue rim (mid-1970s represses). The next UK design is orange with a blue rim, the palm tree, and no rim text. Pink Moon copies pressed around 1975 and Five Leaves Left copies from around 1976 use it.

A period-correct label narrows the search. It does not replace the album-specific matrix, jacket, and format checks.

• Treating the ILPS number as proof of age. Five Leaves Left stayed ILPS 9105 on 1970s and 1980s represses, on a 2008 reissue, and on unofficial copies.
• Calling a pink-rim Five Leaves Left a first pressing. The album first appeared on the black block label; pink-rim copies are early-1970s reissues, and one documented copy has A-3U/B-3U runouts.
• Calling every pink-rim Bryter Layter an original. A 1972 repress uses the same design and the same A-1U/B-1U runouts. Only the label typesetting differs.
• Dating Pink Moon by its matrix alone. A mid-1970s repress on the orange-and-blue label still carries A-1U and B-1U.
• Mistaking a modern 180-gram reissue with a replica pink block or pink-rim label for an original. A barcode on the jacket gives it away.

These album-specific guides show how the shared label clue combines with a catalog number, matrix, jacket, and value range.

1. Name the label design first: orange-and-black logo, black block, white 'i', pink rim with palm tree, or orange with a blue rim.
2. Read the small label text. Original Bryter Layter labels show '℗ 1970' alone, 'Side 1'/'Side 2' and 'Stereo', and track times without brackets; the 1972 repress adds 'Island Records Ltd.' and brackets the times.
3. Copy the stamped runouts on both sides, including the suffix (A-1U, A-3U) and any etched plant prefix such as 'I-3'.
4. Read the bottom of the back cover. Original Pink Moon sleeves say 'Printed and made by Tinsley Robor Group Ltd.' with the Basing Street address; a later sleeve says 'Printed in England by Robor Limited'.
5. Check for a barcode on the jacket. None of the 1969–1972 originals has one.