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I am rather lucky these days. This morning I received a very nice little hunting bag, which looks like a colonial possible bag. Yet it must not be very old, there are original sewn cartridges loops inside. Funny detail, there was in the pocket a hunting license dated 1914.

I work with leather. This summer I will make a replica of it, it will go wonderfully with my flintlock.

Isn't it pretty??

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Very nice game bag indeed mate - a perfect piece of kit for you & your smoke pole!
If it's still in good enough nick then I'd take it along for a nostalgic hunting ride one day regardless!
You will need soft yet strong leather, what are you thinking of using?

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If the leather hasn't been meticulously cared for over the last 100 years, it's very likely hard and in danger of breaking. Ironically here, a specialist in the restoration of spiked helmets once explained this to me: leather always retains a certain moisture content, which you protect with leather grease. If this minimum moisture level drops below a certain point — I don't know exactly what it is anymore — perhaps 15%, then the leather changes irreversibly; it becomes hard and cracks when move.

This man also worked for the Swedish Royal Guard; he probably knew what he was talking about.

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