Hi Greg,
If I may answer instead of my esteamed colleague and former paratrooper comrade in arms, there are two distinct dead giveaways. First, the leather. Look at the texture (if it were present with you, I would ask you to smell it.) It isn't cowhide, it is goatskin.
Second, the vertical belt loop in conjunction with a shoulder stock mounting horizontal fixture.
These things were made along with some terribly crude board stocks with abominable attaching yokes and several thousand were introduced on the American market about 20 years ago. They turn up from time to time but are about as real as an honest Clintoon
Tom A.
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