Soft Leather For Hard Wear.— A queer thing about leather is that, as often as not, it is the wilder animal which gives the finer, better textured leather. Hogskin, for example, comes either from the South American wild boar or from a strange, ugly South American water-rat. The wild boar hogskin is known as Peccary and often bears' tusk marks, grazes and scratches even when it is on the shop counter in the shape of superbly soft globes.—London.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28347, 5 August 1957, Page 3
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