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Is this Golden Lion a fake?
A friend of mine has a later Genelex KT-88 with the two-tone red/pink
label and white lettering. But in looking at it, the phenolic base seems very dark. It isn't black, but the best way I can describe it is this: it's about the same color as a Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate bar. Extremely dark brown. Did they make real KT-88's with that color of base? There's very little getter flash, about 2 cm. in diameter and pinkish on each side, and maybe 3 cm. and dark brownish on top. The getters are round and look like they are square in cross section. I suppose about 1mm x 1 mm in cross-section, roughly. Plates are black and I see no holes in them. There's an "8" formed in the end of the locating pin. The only other code I've found is a "Z" stamped over the "KT88" that the lion is holding. Does this sound like the real thing, or do you think it's an imposter? Thanks in advance! |
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