how to spot an early Koetsu


I just purchased an old turntable, on it is an old Koetsu rosewood cartridge.Now is it real or fake. If real how old can it be? Sound is great, all things point to a mark 1, the only thing that doesn't look right is the serial number. The number is etched on the top metal part of the cartridge where the screws go in,the number reads 911 75,thats it no japan either.So can anyone help me out here?
waldozega

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Interesting post, Dgad.
Thank you, it makes sense.
A manufacturer has no influence on final sales price (here we have the Zyx dilemma). Let's say, Koetsu give out a model for 600$ and the final price will be 5000$, how much orders they will get?
When there is a way to get that one for 2000$, will they get more orders? Probably.
You see it from all distributors, how much you have to pay for a "overhauled" cartridge. More and more stopped that (Too much work) and they replaced it with an exchange cartridge.
Do you think, they give any money to customer? No, even the Dealer has it's markup on these...and he no work except to write a new address....