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Weird Astra SS Packaging/Blades

Hello gentlemen!

I wanted to pick y'all's brain on these new Astra SS that I purchased from Ebay. As you can see from the pictures below; these Astra's were packaged in an all white package with no blade label printed. Additionally the blade itself has a different style of font etched on to it, and it's missing the QA numbers that traditional Russian Asta blades have etched (see last pic of a "normal" Astra (Left) compared to the new one (Right).

Do y'all think I have a bad batch? or fake blades?

These were made back in 2018 in Russia according to the packaging.

Any help would be appreciated!


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Russian Astra blades had the laser etched logo for a period (seems like it was right around 2018) and then they went back to ink stamp logo. I can't remember whether or not there was a quality change associated with the laser etched period. Seems like there was.
 
The outer packaging for 2018 production run looks right. Here is a thread showing the new (in 2017) package compared to the old
 
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