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Please help me identifying this tube? Seller does not wish to divulge more information, so help really needed to see if this is worth buying at $60. Thank you!
What are you trying to figure out exactly? Appears to be Siemens from what's left of the logos. Also a decent chance they're used as the logo is mostly gone from both.
I don't think anyone ever bought the Siemen's trademark or tooling to produce modern re-issues, so Siemens is Siemens. The fact that these proudly advertise 'Made in West Germany' in both English and French makes me think it's from well after WWII (at least 60s, 12AU7 first issued in '47). I don't have any listening experience with these tubes, but generally I've found that the circuit implementation itself has a much, much larger impact on sound than the tube brand.
As far as cost/rarity, $60 isn't a bad price.