Re: [CR]Ideale saddle repair possibilities?

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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:04:23 +0000
From: "Hilary Stone" <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: Simon PJ <simonpj@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Ideale saddle repair possibilities?
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Tony Colegrave can repair Ideale saddles just as he does Brooks and already has some stamps... His email address is tony_colegrave-at-hotmail.com

Hilary Stone, Bristol, England

Simon PJ wrote:
> I have an Ideale saddle which has lost all of its leather:
>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/simonpj/Follis_1955_Forestier/ADSCF1236.
> jpg.html
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> http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/simonpj/Follis_1955_Forestier/ADSCF1237.
> jpg.html
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> http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/simonpj/Follis_1955_Forestier/ADSCF1240.
> jpg.html
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> I'd be grateful for any advice about the possibility of repairing it.
>
> I do have some other Ideale saddles - which don't have the sought-after
> Duralumin frame - and wondered whether it would be possible to do a leather
> transplant. Or would anybody be able to make a replacement leather?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wyndham Pulman-Jones
> Girton, Cambs., UK.