"It actually was a hand-made fork. It's from an early 80s Pogliaghi. " <--- do you really think these guys were producing 2 bikes a day back in the 80s?? Sorry for raining in your parade man but back in the 80s was like the boom of cycling production and the QC in several brands was pretty bad because they needed to get the bikes off the factory fast.

Yes the fork was hand made in a jig with tubing cut in less than 30 secs and brazed in 10 secs more. Probably took them no more than 15 mins to get that made and they made maybe 100 to 400 forks a day. And pretty much all the forks are made the same way, one guy cuts the tubes, other guy puts the stuff in the jig and braze it. And next day was going to chroming.

Sincerely that you get good stuff doesnt mean that the fabrication process takes 2 weeks as any hand made american frame. Technically they could made a frame a day but in factory made frames they made zillions per day. That's the cruel reality.