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are considering a homo with a significant defect is the counsel of a conscientious real estate agent who is in daily touch with property values and whose experience can guide you to an economicallywise decision dont let a defect blind you to a substantial bargain remax markvllle realty ltd rltr 471600 leather leaders by denise mcdonald what does the king of saudi arabias private 747 have in com mon with former prime minister pierre trudeaus office or the- original interior of the cn tower with the company producing lear jets each has an association with whitchurchstouffville thanks to leather supplied by spinneybeck enterprises ltd we have evolved from a im porter of shoe leather to a leading importer of fine italian calfskin for upholstery says spin neybeck vicepresident stephen manchee according to stephen spin neybeck was founded by his father charles manchee in june 1962 and is located in the former hillcrest public school ss no 8 a halfmile south of blooming- ton road on kennedy road charles had previously been the sales manager for the davis leather company on davis drive newmarket his three sons later joined the firm after schooling in europe philip as president stephen as vice- president and michael as treasurer spinneybeck was named after my parents farm across the road says stephen spinney comes from the old english word for a stand of woods and beck means a stream not really in tended its ironic these words are the two key ingredients in the old- fashioned leathermaking techni ques although spinneybeck is a warehouse not a manufacturing firm it caters mainly to business focused on the contract industry such as architects and interior de signers however he claims as the renaissance of leather gains momentum they may soon be gin dealing with the residential sector sometime during the post world war ii era we became a vinylized society he says refer ring to it as the plastic perfect i syndrome but these days peo ple no longer seem as interested in a throwaway society and the trend is going back to a mass in terest in the beauty and value of good quality natural leather according to stephen all the premium select calfskin leather comes to spinneybeck already tanned and dyed ready to be ship ped to their clients the best upholstery leather hides are from the bovines of cen tral and southern europe stephen says of these the finest are the veal calfskins of northern italy italian veal animals are protected from the weather fed a milk diet and washed regularly they also have smaller farms dont brand their animals and have no barbed wire fences priding themselves on the finest imported leather stephen feels its unfortunate most people misinterpret the term genuine leather and accept this as a mark of quality this is equal to saying a car is a car and comparing a hyundai pony to a rollsroyce corona tion he says according to a leather manual supplied by spinneybeck most people are confused by the term top grain however this defini tion is used when the grain is not genuine but has been sanded away and an imitation grain stamped on spinneybeck claims to only import full grain or full top grain leather just as the grain texture and markings of wood should reveal the nature of the tree from which it comes- leather should display the natural markings and grain characteristics of the animal reads the manual one should sec the fat wrinkles and rib lines and it should feel supple and natu ral to the touch