What type leather?

[PAMuzzle]

I received a couple pieces of tannery dyed 8/9 oz leather.  How can I tell what type type if leather it is?  Veg tan, chrome tan,  etc?  Got it from someone else and he doesn’t know what it is or where he got it.

it seems like veg tan but has a waxy feel.  Barge contact cement peeled off.  Water runs off but it feels damp and penetrated 1/4 on cut edge.  I was able to hammer fold it like for a case.

Edited May 24, 2023 by PAMuzzle

[Tugadude]

Try burnishing an edge.  If it slicks up easily, probably vegetable tanned leather.

[PAMuzzle]

Yup it slicked up.

[PAMuzzle]

Must be vegtan…poured boiling water on it and it took a little while but it started curling.  Took another piece and burned it.  Rubbed ashes on white paper they were brown no green.