Vintage sheepskin/shearling jackets

[LunaticVillage]

Vintage sheepskin/shearling jackets have become my recent obsession. I found one at the local thrift. Marbolo man/ 70's-80's NYC b-boy style shearling. The style has been turning heads and getting a lot of compliments. However, I noticed a lot of the older sheepskins don't have inside tags or branding. The one I picked up has no inside tag branding other than the Lot/size tag. I've studied sheepskin coats with the tags from specific brands specifying "genuine shearling" and such and the quality of the one I picked up seems pretty much identical. As people on the street who see me wearing the coat also spot the high quality of the jacket and tell me it's a really nice coat. Not all of my coats get that type of attention. But how do you know if it's real shearling/sheepskin if there are no tags? I find it strange that so many sheepskin coats from the 70's and 80's have zero inside labeling or branding aside from a small Lot/size tag. And the older shearlings of the style I have that do have branding seem to be produced by only a handful of brands (i.e. Lakeland, Berman's, Schott, some brand produced exclusively for Saks Fifth etc.). I'll post some pics of the shearling I picked up from the thrift within the next couple days so you can judge.

 

[Kingstonian]

Morlands of Glastonbury was once the largest sheepskin manufacturer in the world. Glastonbury was the big centre for sheepskin. Morlands is now closed though Drapers is still in business.
https://www.british-sheepskin.co.uk/about-us/british-sheepskin-history/

Nursey of East Anglia was another big brand that has recently closed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Son-sheepskin-coats-Del-Boy-closing-down.html

During boom times lots of sheepskin was produced by lesser companies with no branding.