09-03-2013, 02:50 AM
Mike, appreciate that first menu for a tanning solution that would give a dark look to the leather.
However a black, roan, white, tan, etc. cow would all have the same color hide under the hair.
My main question was whether there was any black leather used during the time period I quoted and you seem to have hit one aspect on the head. Even if it was not "dyed" black, it would probably take on the color of a U.S. Marine's dress shoes, which are a cross between cordovan and black. They may have gone to all black by now, as I don't know. I've been out of the service too many years.
Thanks again Mike
However a black, roan, white, tan, etc. cow would all have the same color hide under the hair.
My main question was whether there was any black leather used during the time period I quoted and you seem to have hit one aspect on the head. Even if it was not "dyed" black, it would probably take on the color of a U.S. Marine's dress shoes, which are a cross between cordovan and black. They may have gone to all black by now, as I don't know. I've been out of the service too many years.
Thanks again Mike
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