Hi Nick,
There's a guy here in England (Tony Colegrave) who specialises in re-coveri ng vintage leather saddles, and in fact, he's authorised by Brooks to repai r theirs. He has the correct stamps for the leather, although I don't know what he has for Ideale. I'm pretty sure he could help you out though. His email address is tony_colegrave@hotmail.com.
Neil Foddering Weymouth, Dorset, England
> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:57:06 +0200
> From: nicbordeaux@yahoo.fr
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]Leather saddle repair
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> I have a nice alloy chassis Idéale leather sadle just turned up. Beauti
ful and desirable, apart from it's torn badly at the nose. Too torn I think
to be repaired. If anybody knows tricks (I doubt it) to repair this one, t
hat would be very helpful. As usual, you want to see pics of this item you
get inflicted upon you http://membres.lycos.fr/
>
> It is a sad fact of life that very often, the very item you want most t
urns up, and there is one big problem with it: it's mauled in some way or o
ther to the extent that it is unusable. That is the one side of collecting
I most definitely don't enjoy, it's much worse having a past repair dream i
tem than never getting it in the first place.
>
> Nick March, Mont de Marsan, 40000 France
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