The originals are a different color brown but the biggest "tell" is the shift pattern. The originals were molded without it then a hot branding iron like tool melted the pattern in which caused molten plastic to form a small ridge around the edges of the pattern that you can feel. Adding the dark colored dye highlighting the grain and shift pattern was the last step, it was wiped on and them wiped off leaving dye in the low areas only. Also, the number font style is different.

Reproductions are molded in one process molding the pattern in and leaving no molten plastic ridge.


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