The quality of the counterfeits is significantly improving, so current vintage-rollerball plagiarisms are visually no longer easy to expose. Striking are partly contradictory detail engravings, e.g. inscriptions like Hemingway on a cap that does not fit the model designation. Generally, as a rollerball there are anyway no comparable originals from the corresponding vintage range. Anyone valuing the characteristic tie clip finds as a legitimate alternative e.g. the Astoria models, which also show such a clip.