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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The Leather Anniversary

To mark the third anniversary — the Leather Anniversary — of the Streamline blog, I suggest a virtual visit to the Walsall Leather Museum.

An image from the "Four-in-Hand" catalogue of R.E. Thacker, 1905, showing military saddlery, including pistol wallets, a pistol holster, a valise, etc.
(Walsall Leather Museum)

Walsall, a town in Staffordshire eleven miles northwest of Birmingham, has been the center of leather manufacture in England for over 200 years. A fascinating timeline compiled by the Leather Museum is here (pdf).

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posted by Karen Nelson @ 11:30 PM