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			Join Date: Mar 2012 
				Location: In the wee woods north of Napanee Ontario 
				
				
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			Shows leather shrinking and old black finish worn off and encrusting the grip wires. Leather is not completely hard as one would expect if over 200 years old. 
		
		
		
			Always good to take a second, third look at things as I now see the grip covering not to be original but has age.  | 
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