Identify these mini humbuckers

hessodreamy

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I bought these Duncan mini humbuckers the other day and I'm trying to figure out what they are as they don't seem to match anything on the Duncan site.

Resistances are 7.13 and 6.96. Actually seems a little too close to each other - certainly most of the Duncan range have about 1k difference between the neck and bridge (I'm assuming what I've got is a neck and a bridge).

They've got black metal covers and the duncan stamped base plate. I don't know if the black covers are original (the soldering isn't neat enough or messy enough to suggest either way). The previous owner has had these for years so it could be an old or redesigned model.

Any ideas?

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I’ve never seen a Duncan that looks like those. Don’t know what they could be. Duncan doesn’t use that kind of pickup wire, and has never used brass baseplates that I’m aware of.
 
These are fake Duncans from China, I have seen them on AliExpress. Never ever brass backplates from Duncan.
 
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These are fake Duncans from China, I have seen them on AliExpress. Never ever brass backplates from Duncan.

Yeah, the back logo 'implies' SD, but that's as far as it goes, there is no authentic Seymour Duncan info stamped into it.
Just a logo 'insinuating' it's a SD.
I smell fake big time.
 
I give another hint: look at string symbol in the curve of the S. If you zoom in, you see they are hexagon. The original SD logo has round symbols.
 
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