Well the forks are certainly not chrome. The steerer has been scraped clean, obviously there was some overspray with the powdercoating but there are traces of red under the yellow and chipping away around the brake mount hole shows hints of red under the coating too. I found the faint remains of the columbus dove on the steerer but I'm still not sure on the tubing.

Not sure on chrome anywhere else, the powder coating isnt the easiest thing to shift. Any ideas on what works well at removing it for when I decide to repaint?

The lugs for the seat tube bolt are very smooth and shiny under the coating but this could just be nice metal...haven't managed to investigate further. I'm guessing the frame would've been blasted/acid dipped before powder coating so even if any of the lugs had been chrome I'm not sure what condition it would be in now.

Still even if there isn't any chrome it's still a nice frame to be worked on a built up at some point. The guy on ebay replied to say he'd send some pics over at some point so if they match I may even get a model id too.