Heritage Moose Leather Billfold Wallet

For the man who has heard about front pocket wallets and is not interested.

Most of the Rogue wallets I carry are built on their patented front-pocket curve. This one is not. It is a traditional billfold, the shape he already knows, in a much better material than whatever he is carrying now.

Four card slots that hold twelve cards, a full billfold and a stash pocket. Four and a half by three and a half inches, 2.8 ounces.

The leather

Genuine moose leather, which is thick and soft at the same time and has a grain you can feel through your fingertips. It takes a scuff without looking beaten up, and it gets better the more you handle it, which is the whole point of buying leather instead of something coated to stay new.

Details

• Genuine moose leather
• Traditional billfold, not the front pocket shape
• 4 card slots, holds 12 cards
• Full billfold and stash pocket
• 4.5 by 3.5 by 0.25 inches, 2.8 ounces

Same wallet, three leathers

The Heritage billfold comes in three hides and they are genuinely different to live with. Moose sits in the middle, soft in the hand with a little more structure to it. Baseball glove leather is the softest of the three and the least expensive, and it arrives already broken in. Bison is the toughest, stiff out of the box, and the one that will still be going in ten years.

Who makes it

Rogue Industries, in Standish, Maine. Michael Lyons started it in 2007 because he was tired of sitting on a fat back-pocket wallet, taught himself leatherwork, and came out of it holding two patents on a front pocket shape. The workshop runs on solar.

I did not make this and I am not going to imply I did. What I can tell you is it is made in the United States by a shop that puts its own name on it and backs it for two years, which is the same standard I hold the turquoise to.

Free US shipping over $75. Add a pair of studs to the same order and free shipping is likely covered.