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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Goodykoontz, post: 10238099, member: 82566&quot;]i may wind up leaving it alone.&nbsp; i received the cellugel and tried it on a small area and it does darken the leather quite a bit.&nbsp; i think this is probably because there is literally no original tanned surface left on most of it.&nbsp; it works for consolidating the powdery surface, but it will most likely make, for instance, that stamp almost invisible at this point.&nbsp; i was also going to say, i did finally hear back from the Wells Fargo museum&#039;s historian.&nbsp; she thinks it says &quot;PAID&quot;&nbsp; also, as it does resemble a common franking stamp that appeared on documents in that period.&nbsp; these documents are similar to the one posted on this forum by Deborah.&nbsp; however, i&#039;m still trying to figure out what the date signifies. i really don&#039;t think the bag dates from 1859 and i haven&#039;t seen any examples of such a stamp with a date at the bottom or for that matter not preprinted on the document.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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