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<p>[QUOTE="808 raver, post: 9833339, member: 4654"]Lovely box but leather is very hard to restore, the only way of keeping it original would be to get some leather filler for car seats and a darker leather stain but this would ruin the gilding. You don't have the leather irons for the patterns to re-guild so I'm afraid you are stuck with what you have. This is the reason I don't collect leather boxes, it's ok if they have leather inside but on the outside it's just too perishable. I couldn't resist an antique surgeons medical kit that had leather on the outside but after a while I decided to pass it on for this very reason.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="808 raver, post: 9833339, member: 4654"]Lovely box but leather is very hard to restore, the only way of keeping it original would be to get some leather filler for car seats and a darker leather stain but this would ruin the gilding. You don't have the leather irons for the patterns to re-guild so I'm afraid you are stuck with what you have. This is the reason I don't collect leather boxes, it's ok if they have leather inside but on the outside it's just too perishable. I couldn't resist an antique surgeons medical kit that had leather on the outside but after a while I decided to pass it on for this very reason.[/QUOTE]
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