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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 684984, member: 55"]PS, as far as method of making the design; leather designs like this are not individually hand-tooled. The design would be stamped on the leather, by machine, and colored much as one would color a print on paper, using leather dyes.</p><p>I'm no fashion expert, but my Mom had things like this, from the 70s or later; it is a pretty timeless design.</p><p>I'd expect if it was made in the 1920s there would have been significant stiffening and cracking of the leather over the last 100 years. I'm just not seeing that much age.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 684984, member: 55"]PS, as far as method of making the design; leather designs like this are not individually hand-tooled. The design would be stamped on the leather, by machine, and colored much as one would color a print on paper, using leather dyes. I'm no fashion expert, but my Mom had things like this, from the 70s or later; it is a pretty timeless design. I'd expect if it was made in the 1920s there would have been significant stiffening and cracking of the leather over the last 100 years. I'm just not seeing that much age.[/QUOTE]
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