Great information but none of it answers my question unfortunately. My s/n is 2401002 with none of the SD-business.

Wow! Pretty impressive. What kind of a copy do you have? Mine is a plum / red label but from your photos it looks grey / white. The pictures came out really well. I'm so confused now because my LP carries all the right marks for an original pressing but the etching definitely doesn't look like yours. I should point out mine is a UK pressing with serial number 2401002 [no gaps or hyphens] A5 / B5 w/ exec. producer credit to Peter Grant and correct Track 2 listing as Celebration Day, as opposed to Celebration on later pressings. Anyone who owns a plum / red got a photo of the etchings?

No, it's definitely not a counterfeit version. It's got all the marks / matrices that it's supposed to and the label is correct for it's release. I'm just a little curious to see what the etchings are supposed to look like. I didn't have a reference point so something to compare it to would be great. The white label photos above look very 'scroll'y' and mine don't look like that at all, from what I can make out. Feedback would be awesome!

Hi There, I recently bought a first pressing of Led Zeppelin iii. It has the etchings, as mentioned above, but they look a bit haphazard if I'm honest. Has anyone got a picture of what they SHOULD look like? I find it difficult to photo my copy, the etchings are hard to capture. It's a red / plum 2401002 A5 / B5 w/ Peter Grant credit. The photos above make it look like the etchings are really carefully scribed. Mine's not like that, as far as I can make out. Like I said, it's hard to catch the light correctly to read it properly. if someone could post a picture of theirs that'd be really helpful. thanks, clare