curious...

[scrojo]

The Europeans like putting the year on there - not so much a North American thing.

yep. as has been stated before, it's not solid proof of a fake but for anything pre-2001 it's a pretty big red flag.

[DenisMutter]

The year thing is really a silly reason to discount it as a fake, esp. since there are a lot of other factors that are better at determining that.

I still say somebody would know somebody who knew who did it if it were real.

And probably, somebody knows somebody that did it if it's fake, too.