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Douglas

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Here's where our leather is from
« on: May 18, 2005, 13:14:43 »
The original Roser leather factory:

http://www.griese-es.de/esslingen/0506.jpg

I guess the MB Tex-covered "cows" were at a different site.


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Mike Hughes

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Re: Here's where our leather is from
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2005, 15:45:25 »
I understood that the "Tex" came from a specially bred naugha herd developed by descendants of some German immigants who settled in Texas after the Civil War.

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