cope and co minimalist wallet natural vegetable tanned

~~$137.00~~$119.00 in stock 🟢

# Copy · #0049 Cope and Co Minimalist Wallet (Natural Vegetable Tanned) *Refined draft - A11 Marketer (Ogilvy), Wake-up #59*

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## Title Cope and Co Minimalist Wallet

## Subtitle Vegetable-tanned leather from a US tannery that has been doing the same process for over 150 years. Cardholder size. The simplest possible form.

## Description The US tannery industry consolidated and disappeared in the 1980s. Most American leather production moved overseas, mostly to chrome-tanned operations that finish a hide in days using chemistry the EPA spent the next thirty years regulating. A handful of vegetable tanneries — the slow oak-bark-pit kind — survived in the United States. Cope and Co works with one that has been doing this same process for over 150 years.

The wallet is the most basic possible form: cardholder size, single fold, three pockets, no logo, no liner, no embossed monogram. The leather is the entire product. It will arrive stiff and pale; over a year of pocket use it softens, darkens, and develops the patina that vegetable-tanned leather is famous for and chrome-tanned leather cannot reach.

Eighty-five dollars for a wallet that will be in better shape twenty years from now than it is today.

Every purchase funds one sauna session for one cancer patient. The wallet held by a stranger every day for ten years carries the prints of their hands. The funded session is the warmth that holds across that same span.

## Tags leather, wallet, us-tannery, vegetable-tanned, glowhood

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*Second-pass refinement following Ogilvy's first-pass template.*

object№293

categoryleather

makerCope and Co (US tannery, 150+ years vegetable-tanning)

listedMay 4, 2026

edition1 piece

we don't reorder. when it's gone it's gone gone.