Almost. Volynka
It's heritage and not heritage. I saw something about it in the Leather Forever exhibition when it came to London. I think they had a bag made from some of the shipwreck salvage. Not sure when it was made though and whether it was ever made with a sale in mind.
From h.com
In 1920s Paris it was the fashionable scent. Fleeing a world they no longer recognized as their own, White Russians cherished it as a vestige of their grandeur. They put its name to a variety of fragrances, virile to varying degrees. Russian leather was all the rage with perfumers. It seduced women, yet the scent’s origin was the warlike hide for soldiers’ boots. According to the legend,
yufte – another of its names – was born when a Cossack rubbed his boots with birch bark to make them waterproof. This quality, plus its strength, made its reputation. Russian leather was the ageless material for binding books and lining the interiors of carriages. Solid but soft to the touch, it played to the senses. These talismans, remarks Sophie Mouquin, “exude a mixture of lapsang souchong, cigar and peat-rich whisky, the unique odour that is its signature.” There is no doubt, however, that in the eighteenth century it was one of the prized commodities in Imperial Russia’s trade with the West, which remained the prime destination for the best skins tanned in the Moscow region until early in the 1900s. Then its secrets were drowned out in the tumult of the October Revolution.
The imperial leather sheds its skin
- When Russian leather came back to life it was on the other side of the English Channel, in the early 1970s. Divers off the Cornish coast brought up the precious cargo of a two-master that had sunk when it hit a storm off the Plymouth Sound in 1786. The Metta Catharina had set sail from Saint Petersburg for Genoa, but the hemp and Russian leather in its hold never reached their destination. For two centuries the sea had kept the handsome rolls of leather wrapped in its protective silt. Their discovery by divers in such fine condition confirmed that this unique material is indeed rotproof.
@Serva1 can fill us in because she actually has some.
you know the little section that shows up when you click product details...they include what year the leather was introduced in. Obviously you can't find all the leathers on hermes.com and they will only have what's still current so no discontinued ones...but here's a list of what I've grabbed so far sorted by year they are introduced. Obviously not a lot that I'd call heritage but I guess some tangentially related information!
