Quote Originally Posted by artificer View Post
That's not entirely true. Assuming the leather was aniline dyed (most are, as it stabilizes the hide) and then surface dyed (which it obviously was) you cannot tell what the underlying colour actually is. You cannot assume that the colour is "struck through".

The inner colour could vary from white to off-white, all the way down to buff.
Scott, you are a never ending source of information!