Holster worth having restored?

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by lugerholsterrepair

It has no major faults like a cutaway front or names scratched in it...

I've noticed this on many holsters from the war...Is there an easy way to remove the inked names etc on leather holsters??? Some kind of bleach maybe???

I would assume (since ball point pens didn't appear until after the end of the war) that the ink would be soaked into the leather...from a quill (?) pen (I forget what they were called...my seat in grade school had an inkwell but we all had ball points by 1956)...

My baseball mitt has my name branded into it...I was afraid someone would steal it and erase/bleach the inked name off...