Everyone seems to swear by Picards, and I know it has excellent restoration properties. I would like to offer an alternative, and that is Bick 4 Leather Conditioner. The bottle states it will not darken leather. That I'm not sure about because both antique scabbards I have used it on were black. However, I have successfully restored the scabbard to an 1850 Pattern US Army Foot Officer's sword, and the scabbard to a Bayonet, Common, Complete w/locking ring ("Pattern 1876"). The bayonet scabbard came from the Nepal Martini-Henry cache, and obviously had been in storage for approximately 100 years, in not the best of environments. In both cases the Bick 4 did an outstanding job.
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