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Originally Posted by FWB

connollizing the leather made it shiny, was sprayed with a lacquer.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connolly_Leather

I'm sure you're right and a spray lacquer would have been used: however as Dan will no doubt point out soon, AC did not use Connolly leather, or presumably therefore any of the Connolly processes in treating the leather. I'd love to know who their leather supplier was, and am doing a bit of research into this.