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Borboletta vinyl value

Prices for this album are still being collected: our eBay tracker quotes a pressing only after at least three live listings match it. The pressings and identification below are complete.

Santana — Borboletta: pressings we track

PressingCatalogCountryNotes
2013 Friday MusicFRM 33135USLimited Edition, Reissue, Gatefold
2014 Speakers CornerPC 33135GermanyReissue, Remastered, 180 g
2014 Speakers CornerPC 33135GermanyReissue, Remastered, Test Pressing
2020 Friday MusicFRM33135USLimited Edition, Reissue, Platinum Swirl, 180 gram
2020 Friday MusicFRM-33135USReissue
2020 Friday MusicFRM-33135USLimited Edition, Translucid Blue
Undated ColumbiaPC 33135USReissue, Pitman pressing
Undated ColumbiaPC 33135USReissue
Undated ColumbiaPC 33135USReissue, Terre Haute Pressing

9 pressings tracked · catalog of 974,753 releases, August 2026

What separates the pressings

Oldest we track, 2013First released 1974; our table starts at 2013 (Friday Music, US). A copy older than 2013 predates everything here. Treat it as the find.
Collector variants2013 US: Limited Edition, Reissue, Gatefold; 2014 Germany: Reissue, Remastered, Test Pressing; 2020 US: Limited Edition, Reissue, Platinum Swirl, 180 gram. Short runs like these often bring more than a standard early copy.
Reissues, 2014+2 pressings. Easy to find, priced as listening copies.

How to identify your copy

Three checks, in the order worth doing them.

  1. 1

    Match the catalog number. It is printed on the spine and the record label. Check it together with the country against the pressings table above: the same number can appear in more than one country.

  2. 2

    Read the runout. The code etched in the dead wax near the label names the exact pressing. On the 2013 US pressing it reads “FRM-33135-A TML-S 88883724211 A 22317.1(3)...” on side one and “FRM-33135-B TML-S -v- 8888372411 B 22317.2(3)...” on side two. Jackets get swapped over the decades; the runout does not.

  3. 3

    Grade the condition. The same pressing can be worth several times more in near mint than in VG. Grade the vinyl and the sleeve separately — our grading guide shows the standard scale.

A 1974 jacket with a later disc inside is a reissue in an original sleeve. Judge the pressing by the runout etching and the label, never by the cover.

Questions

Which pressing of Borboletta is worth the most?

Original 1974 pressings lead; they predate everything in our table, and that scarcity is the point. Among tracked copies, the 2013 pressings come first. Scarcer variants (the 2013 “Limited Edition, Reissue, Gatefold” and the 2014 “Reissue, Remastered, Test Pressing”) can beat an ordinary early copy. After that it is all condition: the gap between near mint and VG is usually larger than the gap between pressings.

How do I tell which pressing I have?

Match the catalog number on the spine and label against the table above, check the country, then read the etched code in the runout groove. On the 2013 US pressing the runout reads “FRM-33135-A TML-S 88883724211 A 22317.1(3)...”. A period jacket with a later disc inside is still a reissue.

How much is Borboletta worth today?

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