On examination, all the surfaces seem to be made of the match material. The 'leather' surfaces seem to be too uniform in grain and the texture does not seem to be that of leather. It is hard and quite unyielding unlike leather. Of course I am no expert but to my untrained eye I cannot make out an iota of difference between the "leather" and the match.

Does anyone though how I can ascertain if the seating surfaces are infact leather and not some cheap match material? ie whether I have been scammed.

Is there any place i can go or test I can do to check whether a material is laether or not?

Any help/ advice would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Sam

From the outside it's difficult to tell because leather can be corrected, grained, and top coated with an acrylic color coat.

There is also a product called re-bonded leather. The best way to describe this is re-bonded leather is to hides as particle board is to lumber.

And you are right a "leather-matched" piece has leather where you touch it and vinyl in places where you don't -- outside arms and outside back, sometimes front panels.