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4. A close-up photo showing the ring construction?

The ring construction is all there in the photo of the hamata, if you look at the background surrounding the overall photos. At least I'm assuming that's a closeup used as the background. Stamped solid rings and riveted.

Added: The hamata doesn't look like the Ashok-Rai or the Find-It one IMHO. The shoulder doubling is less wide than the A-R version but wider than the Find-It version, and the hooks and studs look different to either's.

As for the belt; The terminal pendants do look like SOTW's, but the SOTW plates are similar to Len's but seemingly thinner (I have such a belt by Len), as are the apron terminals and pendants. The Daniyal apron discs however look decorated, unlike the SOTW version (according to the photos there).

There's a limited amount of primary resources and references, so it's not particularly surprising that so much gear should be very similar to each other.

To make it clear, I'm not saying anyone's copying anyone, I'm just looking at the details and comparing them to each other, and pointing out that popular buyers' choices are going to be made by all and sundry at some point.