Are the Jr George and Cardiff the same?
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Lets evaluate this question with details. I will not add opinion but show fact and you can make up your own mind.
Notes:
On the platting one is very sloppy from the acid bath and how the cleanup is non-existent. The Dayacom is clearly the higher quality item without any doubt.
The inside of the clip we can always see tooling marks. This is often a good thing as we can evaluate who made it, how it was made and the quality of the manufacturing.
Inside the cap is another area that manufacturing attention to details really shines. Lower quality products will fail in this area. Higher quality products will be cleaned up, attention paid to the fine areas.
Threading. This is a study in and of itself. A close look at threading we see the end of the threads cleanly stopping on the Dayacom product while they keep going on the clone. The threading is also not even on the clone, which means there is a timing issue on the equipment. This could be due to dirty equipment, broken/worn out equipment or the like.
Lets look at 'fit and finish'. The clip does not cleanly fit on the cap due to the residue. Cross compatibility of the nib and end finial (meaning take a Dayacom nib and screw into the clone) is the same threading. However due to the plating method used on the antique 'silver' (technically it's a very very thick chrome plating with an acid bath) the threading is not compatible. On the Dayacom threading it's very clean and crisp. The clone threading is gritty and sloppy.