There are a surely a lot of copies that are made much better than the respective original items. The pictured belt buckle while a "quality piece" is a piece of junk and I do not care if it came from a vet's son or the vet himself somebody is yanking your chain Mark. I greatly respect your experience as an author and researcher but I have had some experience too handling hundreds of these (in my hands and no just looking at photos) in the past few years alone and that buckle will never be original.

John