Neatsfoot oil for Holster?

If you read the Pecard web site you will see it indicates Pecard for leather that can not be properly cared for. Unless your leather collection is stored in a jungle that floods every year and freezes every winter. Pecards is not going to help you collection of treasured holsters. I just turned away two rare holsters some unfortunate person Pecard'd. Pecards is a wonderful product for waterproofing (my favorite leather treatment) but like many products only shortens the life of your collectible leather items.


Museums that have SEVERE environmental conditions (like in flood zones or in poor storage buildings, etc) and already seriously damaged leather, cloth, or paper items have techniques for stabilizing and preserving the items. Oiling or otherwise applying creams, soaps or goos is almost never appropriate. The ACS (conservators -- web site at Stanford Univ) and many research studies point to the proper caring for historic leather and other organic artifacts. A summary can be read at


web.uccs.edu/dmclain/Conservation/hn


Dave