Butler leather, has anybody experienced with this leather?

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I was shown a very special bag made of this leather, in a tan (like Gold) colour. At first I thought it looked like barenia due to the uneven colourings. But it's way smoother than the velvety feel compared to barenia. Because this is such a new leather, my SA doesn't really know too much as to how it will wear, age etc. I wonder whether anybody here has anything in this leather? Will it show scratches easily? Could this be the "non-scratch barenia" I was hoping for??? Thanks in advance!
 
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xiangxiang0731 said:
I was shown a very special bag made of this leather, in a tan (like Gold) colour. At first I thought it looked like barenia due to the uneven colourings. But it's way smoother than the velvety feel compared to barenia. Because this is such a new leather, my SA doesn't really know too much as to how it will wear, age etc. I wonder whether anybody here has anything in this leather? Will it show scratches easily? Could this be the "non-scratch barenia" I was hoping for??? Thanks in advance!
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My understanding is that it is not like barenia (not tanned the same way); somewhat more like tadelakt in terms of the finish.
 
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mistikat said:
My understanding is that it is not like barenia (not tanned the same way); somewhat more like tadelakt in terms of the finish.
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This was how it was described to me on Saturday. I was looking to order a new bag after my disasterous Paris trip and was considering a Plume. It was only offered in this leather and the SA said tadelakt. Went off the Plume when I saw the Drag re-issue in box. Divine.
 
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xiangxiang0731 said:
Thanks mistikat! If it's like tadelakt, it will show scratches easily, won't it?
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Xiangxiang, did you get any further with this leather? I just saw a plume with cobalt interior and it was stunning. However, being new the SA's weren't really sure how it would wear. The one I saw had tonal streaks in the leather which made me think it was a more natural leather. I have no experience of tadelakt so not sure how that wears either.
 
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cheapfrillnorth said:
Xiangxiang, did you get any further with this leather? I just saw a plume with cobalt interior and it was stunning. However, being new the SA's weren't really sure how it would wear. The one I saw had tonal streaks in the leather which made me think it was a more natural leather. I have no experience of tadelakt so not sure how that wears either.
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hi there, no I didn't pursue this further. I it's a natural leather too because it showed some scratch already. And I think it it's like tadelakt as mistikat said, it will show wear a lot. I can't deal with this kind of leather.

The plume you saw came in two versions in lining. Another is lined in hot pink.
 
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xiangxiang0731 said:
hi there, no I didn't pursue this further. I it's a natural leather too because it showed some scratch already. And I think it it's like tadelakt as mistikat said, it will show wear a lot. I can't deal with this kind of leather.

The plume you saw came in two versions in lining. Another is lined in hot pink.
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Also comes lined in soufre and from memory was around £4800.

I liked the natural and I liked the cobalt blue but not 100% sure about them together.

That said I bought a pre-owned plume which just arrived today. From the pictures I thought it was box, Bababebi confirmed Vache Natural and now I see it it is the latter. It already has marks so I feel sure that I will be okay with this one. It was a lot less than £4800. That feels good:smile:
 
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cheapfrillnorth said:
Also comes lined in soufre and from memory was around £4800.

I liked the natural and I liked the cobalt blue but not 100% sure about them together.

That said I bought a pre-owned plume which just arrived today. From the pictures I thought it was box, Bababebi confirmed Vache Natural and now I see it it is the latter. It already has marks so I feel sure that I will be okay with this one. It was a lot less than £4800. That feels good:smile:
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I didn't like the blue lining either. Nor would I like the yellow. I think there are quite a few pre-owned plume around. I like plume a lot but not in this butler leather. I will probably get a pre-owned one some time in the future.
 
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As a uber careful tadelakt owner, I can vouch that this leather if I may say is more 'fragile' than box. Small scratches can be 'buffed' for my experience. From my understanding its meant to pacify the demand of box (and barenia it seems).
 
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Hed Kandi said:
As a uber careful tadelakt owner, I can vouch that this leather if I may say is more 'fragile' than box. Small scratches can be 'buffed' for my experience. From my understanding its meant to pacify the demand of box (and barenia it seems).
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I always think tadelakt and berania are more fragile than box. I have a belt in box and I am quite rough on it but so far it's held up quite well. A few times when I saw tadelakt and berania in stores, they all had scratches on already.
 
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