I've never heard of a fake strop. There simply isn't that much demand that someone would go to the trouble of doing that.

Back in the day similar to barbers hones there were a handful of outfits that made all of them and they just put a retailer or razor manufacturers name on them which is why you see so many different names. Sometimes the actual manufacturer had their name on it but not always.

With Eboy it's always buy the seller first then the item.