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The Wallace 2212 is photographed in a bare white room on a dark wooden stool. Tan English bridle leather, one flap, one brass latch, and a long shoulder strap hanging from the stool.
A card slot carries a card. A handle carries the whole case. A maker on when a beginner should trust a saddle stitch and when a rivet is the sounder joint.
A white haze on bridle leather after a dry winter is usually wax bloom, not damage. How to tell it from mould, and why the trade prizes what owners wipe away.
Partners stopped carrying them. Young associates never started. But the briefcase didn’t disappear — it migrated to a specific kind of lawyer, in a specific kind of courtroom, doing a specific kind of work.
Practicing on scrap leather saves the good hide. One strap end, step by step: where the bevel, the holes, the seam and the dye go wrong when nothing is tested.
The Alfred Wallace 2251 in brown English bridle leather with a red suede lining, a brass key lock and a red tag. Made by hand at Marcellino NY.
A small, fine crossbody case in red Sedgwick English bridle leather with a nickel key lock set with real rivets and a long strap, for a phone and little things.