Thx for this post Den its an interesting one.
I also red the thread about the "Russian copies" and the first thing that caught my attention was that thick Henckels makermark on the Russian ones, i know Henckles is know for its very crispy Logo and that Russian one has a thick one.
I have compared it with the one mai65 posted, which i found very convincing and there is indeed a difference.

Thicker Logo's can be a result of a die that has to much pressure on it but looking at the depth of the stamp that does not seems to be the case.

A double set of dies would be possible but looking at the their rarity the first batch would be very small, so that would imo not be the case.


Ger

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