Thanks for the replies

Well, I would’nt be able to dispute that it’s a commercial post war copy, it could very well be. If it was in better shape I would think that myself. I guess it’s hard to see in the photo but the patina of the leather and it’s condition makes it impossible to have been any less than fifty years old because I’ve seen the same type of thing on A2 Jackets on e-bay etc, where the back of the shoulders are really dried and cracked, I had to treat it with mink oil to stop the whole thing from disintigrating. It does’nt really matter how you treat a jacket but you can’t get it to look that aged without it actually being that age. I have another jacket that’s over twenty years old and it still looks new. So I guess unless one has seen this particular make of jacket before it would be hard to say for sure. If it had a label that would help alot… anyhow it is what it is… Cheers.