it has 5 pockets (one of them is almost completely toren away.)

 

it looks very very old. The leather is thin and wrinkled and somewhat greasy, like it has been used a lot. 

 

the 2 snap buttons work perfectly. They have a text on it wich says: 

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E-C-H-T O PRYM O 

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not necessarily in this order, it’s hard to tell because it goes in a circle. 

 

Inside, the lining is from a lighter brown canvas or linen, it is slightly transparent, if I hold it up to the light. 

 

There’s a pin in it, that I didn’t even notice in the begining, it has no practical use,  why would anyone put a pin in their wallet?

why would anyone put a pin in their wallet?

why would anyone put a pin in their wallet?

 

I can not find any sign of a brand, no matter how hard I look, if there was a sign, it has probably already faded away. (Whoever made it, they are clearly not so great in marketing. Now how would I go and buy another wallet from them, if I’d want to?)

 

Now as I turn it over and over in my hands I can feel its smell in my nose, but also in my fingers, it has this strange sensual quality I can’t really explain, and it’s a physical thing I’m pretty sure

(it has nothing to do with the knowledge that it was touched before me so many times by other people, or the fact, I created this whole world around it already. )

It’s just: only by touching it, I can feel it’s old and precious.

 

And it doesn’t mean I’d hold it with special care, at all, just a few days ago during moving and packing I remember cruelly pushing it into a very small place in one of the boxes, between a shoe and a bottle of shampoo.