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Another new jacket for those interested to see.
No Jeff,
Images can be deceiving. You cannot judge by looking only at images. Also images that weren't shot from the same distance or angle.
The photo you posted might look the same but it's not. The grain of horse is different. It is bigger and different.
Look at this steerhide
It looks the same, but it's not. Look:
Bigger
Different
See how different? You can't do this with steerhide.
The wwii are often indistriguishable because they are made with leathers that had most of their grain removed by buffing, sanding, grinding and other methods so that they can have a smooth surface. That's why they all look the same. With wear, rain and aging they developed wrinkles that are often mistaken for grain. Also whatever was left of the grain popped up but that is not enough to distinguish the leathers.
Also, patina is often mistaken for color fading. That is wrong. Patina is the darkening of the hide, not the color fading.
Chrome tanned top grain leather cannot develop patina.
Here's an example of patina
and this is an example of color fading
I am glad you appreciate my post.
Patina on a jacket is supposed to make it look beautiful, not to make you look like homeless when you wear it.
Our tannery, to save you 100 years of waiting, can make leathers with very realistic patina finish as shown in this Werber A-2 here: