Vintage flat 'Paul Newman' bund strap in Tempesti Oregon Safari leather.  The strap is approximately 2.5mm thick and the separate bund pad is approximately 2.5mm thick.
 
This leather is produced by Conceria Tempesti of Ponte a Egola, Pisa, Italy.  Their story dates back to the early 1900s, when Giovanni Tempesti, grandfather of the current owners, the cousins Giovanni and Giovanna Tempesti, began the ancient craft of tanning.  Later in the 1930s, his sons Osvaldo and Tullio founded that which would become the Conceria Tempesti in 1946, a company specialized in true vegetable tanned leather.  Twenty-nine skilled workers are employed in two factories, both located in Ponte a Egola.
 
Tempesti Oregon is a 100% vegetable tanned full grain veal hide with natural characteristics and a beutifully soft feel.  The strap will darken with age as the natural patina develops.
 
The strap pictured is a 20mm parallel strap lined with cream calfskin, hand burnished edges and hand stitched at 4 stitches per cm in Cream (C2). Fitted with a 12mm plain free keeper and a polished thumbnail buckle.  The bund pad is constructed in the same materials and measures 40mm x 145mm.
 
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