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You would need to have it personally studied by an expert to be 100% sure one way or the other, but from what I can see in the photo it appears to be non-authentic. There are some sellers of 'instant' WW I aircraft fabric who have a cottage industry of manufacturing these sorts of things in their basement and selling them on Ebay to unsuspecting and non-expert buyers along with undocumented stories that they were part of a well known collector's things. They concentrate on manufacturing these fakes with relatively whole markings such as yours, or an entire German cross, or and entire French or British roundel or an entire rudder with all markings, or an entire personal marking, or such. The colors on these are off - they are far too fresh looking for what a real one looks like today.
What kind of provenance did the seller provide you with this?
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