Calling all Eames experts...
I've just got hold of this... what do you reckon? I know it's the really early label that gets faked but I reckon it's on the level.
Bought it off a collector who reckoned he had it sent over from the States 20 years ago. He was selling off quite a bit of his collection that included some great stuff (high quality borsani, really rare collumbo, early bertoia) which was reassuring.
Wasn't cheap but way less than the market price (as was the rest of his stuff).
It looks really old, slight cracking to the front underside shock mounts, nice patina to the seat etc.
An expert opinion would be appreciated. 
In an instant.
Get one and start looking at various printed media and you'll see. Different printing techniques often appear very different under magnification, and inkjets stand out like a sore thumb. Your average faker would never go to the trouble of using offset lithography to reproduce an Evans label when he can just scan or photograph and print at home.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Identify-Prints-Mechanical-Processes/dp/050023...
As to the chair itself --
Take note of the consistent thickness of the spine lamination. Earlier chairs where made in such a way that this piece could (and did) vary in thickness from one end to the other -- thinner at the upper end and thicker in the lower half. This change (to a single-thickness part) may have taken place at the time of the reintroduction of this chair (did the DCW/LCW ever go out of production ?) and/or with the addition of Vitra as an authorized maker.
Anyone ?
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Interesting to think how that was done on a large scale, a tapered lamination for thicker parts and gentler curves can be done by tapering the laminae in a planer but for this...
The only thing I can think of is that when the log was peeled for the plies the knife was angled very slightly along its length, or am ignorant of a better way to do it, SDR?
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