^this is heatstamping with marron leaf.........
Just want to add my two cents, since I spent an inordinate amount of time lingering next to the craftsman at my store of late, and they kindly explained to me in great detail all about the blindstampling and embossing/monogramming (they obviously thought I wanted to know - that's why I was hanging around them for so long....
)...and I DID want to know, it's fascinating....
OK, Hermes "blindstamping" is when no leaf (or colour) of any kind is used....the craftsmen have the little letters/numbers and they use a hammer to impress these into the leather for the year/their personal id.
'Heatstamping" is what they do for all the other things...the Hermes Paris made in France logo, the monogramming, things like this. They heat the "stamp", nad pressit repeatedly onto the leather, THEN they add the leaf...when I was there he had available gold, silver, marron, noir (black), and rouge h. On some natural leathers they DO just stamp and not colour - you've all seen this on some bags, but THIS bag that DQ had posted (nice bag, too) is stamped in Marron - you can see the colour, especially in the pic of the shoulder-strap.