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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stephen Prower" data-source="post: 3571116" data-attributes="member: 115634">Spotting a Komz 6x24 lookalike or fakecomaderekNot so easy should you just have an Ebay photo to go on, and like me have never seen a Komz 6x24 in the flesh. Worse if you have never seen any other Soviet binocular in the flesh.In hand though the Comet 6x24 Centre Focus is obviously a new lookalike. Here are 8x30mark's close-up photographs:<a href="https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/550791-chinese-copy-russian-6x24-pic-heavy/" target="_blank">https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/550791-chinese-copy-russian-6x24-pic-heavy/</a>The markings on mine are the same except for a different Komz 76**** pattern serial number.A Google image search on string <Komz 6x24 binocular> throws up a bewildering variety of genuine Komz 6x24 markings -- plus the markings of 8x30mark's lookalike! So who's to say the markings on a lookalike or fake aren't yet another of Komz's genuine markings? But then why would a faker bother to invent a novel set of markings anyway. So you're back to the look of the binocular in hand.I could list some of the crudities of my Comet 6x24 that are apparent when it is viewed in hand, but although it's unlikely given the Komz 6x24's high reputation, that it will manifest similar crudities, I have not, as I said, ever seen a Komz 6x24 so as to be sure.Trying to be helpful, I will though by way of exception point out the crudity of the layout of the markings of the Comet 6x24 before Comet dropped, or seems to have dropped, the Komz logo and 'Made in USSR' inscription from its production. You can see the distinctive fonts that I don't think Soviet or Russian manufacturers have ever used. Also the incongruous mixture of sans-serif and serif fonts.That's all I can say.Stephen</blockquote>

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