Thread: Bison made strop

Originally Posted by rcf1023

Hey guys what stamp is this?

Originally Posted by entropy1049

Definitely not Horween. The word "Industria" leads me to believe it's come from Italy. See this relevant post from a totally different forum:

Italian cordovan?

Interesting, note that the logo stamped in the OP shows the letters 'Roci' before it becomes illegible. In the thread that Mike referenced in that link the guy says ....

I've been corresponding with the head of Meermin shoes in Mallorca, Spain, which also uses non-Horween shell sources. Here's what he told me about getting shell supplies:

"In our history we have worked with different Shell suppliers: US Horween, Japanese Shells, Italian finished japanese Shells, and the one we are using now, made in Argentina from Rocinante Tannery. We work with that supplier because its more flexible about the color choices of the hides, stock availability, delivery time, and also because the quality is a good one.

So I'm betting that is where Bison sourced the material. Says horse on the strop though, not cordovan. Anyway ....... I like the caricature of the horse head ...... must be because it looks like an old school tattoo.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I like the caricature of the horse head ...... must be because it looks like an old school tattoo.

You're OK in my book JimmyHAD.

So this is one of those threads that sent me down the rabbit hole......didn't get to Rocinante Tannery but stumble into a group of guys obsessed with shoes, crazy obsessed (kind of hard to imagine) and I end up on You Tube with a dude polishing his cordovan shoes with a deer's thigh bone and I get pulled in....yeah a deer thigh bone, that's what I need for my strop...little greegree for my strop with magic oils coming from the deer bone...Polishing Shell Cordovan Shoes & Boots with a Deer Bone - YouTube