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Jim & Dubie - thanks for your initial inputs! I'll refine the question a bit. What if the knife/sheath is meant as a collectable with no intentions of exposure to the 'elements' other than storage in a somewhat controlled environment i.e. air conditioned with not a huge swing in tempeature during the 'seasons'? Would you do anything different?
thanks again to all



Mike, it's entirely up to you. I would ask the expert, Grady McCotter (search the Forum) what he would do. Personally I would always use a good preservative. I have bought old safe queens in the past, and the leather is not supple.

I guess there is something to be said for someday saying "there has never been a foreign substance on tthis original, dried out sheath."

Dubie Baxter