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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 3869821, member: 360&quot;]So.</p><p><br /></p><p>I picked this thing up on Sunday morning at my local flea-market. It was dusty, it was faded pale as sour milk, it was marked and worn and beat-up...but...it was in fantastic structural condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>$15.00 I paid, and I took it home and started to clean it off, and then laid into it with the boot-polish and beeswax to breathe in some new life!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]319853[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]319854[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no clear idea how old this is, but I believe it to have SIGNIFICANT age, and I estimate a date of somewhere between 1900 - 1920.</p><p><br /></p><p>I base this on the construction of the piece, the shape/cut of the pocket patches, the fact that it has no card-holders, only space for stamps and maybe a business-card or train-ticket etc. There&#039;s no zippers, no snap-buttons, no plastic of any kind. There&#039;s also no identifying marks apart from &quot;E.B&quot; in one corner (presumably the original owner&#039;s initials).</p><p><br /></p><p>The style of the pockets is almost identical to several antique wallets which I&#039;ve seen, which all date to the first decade of the 1900s, so I think this would date to around that era as well. It has the same, basic layout as wallets of the era, just bigger. </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s no maker&#039;s marks, no stickers, no stamps, no logos, trademarks, dates, pattent-numbers...nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]319855[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>^^^Nice tooling-work around the belt-loop^^^</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I know, it is the original belt.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]319856[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]319857[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>All stocked! Blotting paper, calling cards, a sterling-shafted dip-pen, and I was lucky to find that Moleskine notebooks fit inside really well!!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]319858[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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