I just received a reply from Mr. Schlotfeldt and the brushes are legit! He stated the brushes are part of a volume promotion Amazon is running and were manufactured recently in his facility.
I'm stunned for two reasons - One: Real brushes for so cheap and two:
The CEO/Owner of a company replying to an email at 8:30 pm on a SATURDAY!!!! Are you kidding me????:shock: That's just ----------> cool...