After looking at a photo on page 6 of this thread of some old dude named Hanno with his original Curare holding the reproduction with a grin on his face, I probably would have left that question unasked and the assumptions unmade.

However if sombody is worried that the designers from other countries that ripped off the Curare (or at least some of it's features) and sold it under different but similiar sounding names back in the 70's aren't getting their "cut" then by all means, ask the questions