ST Dupont Fake or Real?

[OTDoc]

I recently purchased an ST Dupont fountain pen from a retailer via Ebay. Retailier claimed to be authorized dealer. Looked it up and it is a smoke and fine gifts shop in CA. When the pen arrived it was very impressive and matched my other Dupont Altier Line D pens with one exception: no stamped leaf for the lacque. This makes me wonder if it is the best fake I have ever seen. ST Dupont's site states that all of their pens that have lacquer will have the leaf pattern. Yet this pen is perfect in every other way. Literature and warranty card. Box. Nib. Slightly uneven stamped numbers on the clip. Search on serial number does not bring anything up. Heavy pen. Anyone know if Duponts sometimes don't have the leaf or if this indicates it is a really nice fake?

 

I took some pics to attach but FPN says I have used up all my attachment space. When I go to the "manage attachments to free up space" link there is no option for deleting the images I have. Anyone know how to fix this? 

 

 

[alexwi]

I was also wondering about attachments and deletions, as I posted a message earlier today and noticed that there's a limited amount of space in "attachments."

 

I managed to delete that image from my attachment by going to the original post and deleting it from there.

 

I then went to Gallery (look at the horizontal blue bar at top of your screen), clicked on the "FPN Images" gallery and created an album of my own there.

 

I ended up uploading my image to my new album. You can then attach the images while editing your post.

 

alex

[manhha]

Some modern Dupont Line D pens do not have the stamped leaf, even with the Atelier lines.