Leather History
Do you have pictures of an old shop? Antique tools? Stories of long ago masters? Information gleaned from dusty forgotten books? We are the keepers of a ten thousand year old tradition, and we enjoy learning about what was as much as what is.
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http://reno.craigslist.org/atd/5526819332.html No dog in this hunt but thought I'd share...maybe someone could elaborate its history.
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Found this at an estate sale and paid $15 for it. They didn't know what it was. Any one have any info on it? Link to gallery https://imgur.com/a/Z9taA
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I'm looking for some more facts about cordovan leather. What I know thus far is that the term initially described a certain kind of fine leather coming from Córdoba, Spain and that since the 1930s it was made mainly and later solely from horse hide. In some books it is mentioned as an old term for Marocco goat skin, which I can't really believe to be true as that would mean a specialization towards goat skin for it and not as in the definition I found in an old trade specific dictionary: Any further information on this is welcome.
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I need help with identification. The closest thing I can find using the same language is Lowentraut, listed with CS Osbourne in an 1885 hardware catalog, under tracing wheels. They came from a long closed hardware store in NH that had been open since, according to my source, the late 1700's. I have my doubts about that, but 1800's I could believe. I cannot tell if it is a fabric tracing wheel or for leather use. Did Osbourne make a tracing wheel?
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Looking for info on a #6 J English, Newerk, New Jersey head knife...All I've found so far is company was started in 1828 and was sold in 1856...
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Manual for farriers, horseshoers, saddlers, and wagoners or teamsters : 1914 Downloadable PDF 7 MB
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Pictures of some rubble found in Millennium park.
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Harness Repairing 1921 PDF Download 47 M
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