The leather looks like pigskin. The veined apprance with distinct hair folicles. Very expensive leather, not normally used on military kit, you get very little of it per skin and tan. Sometimes cow leather is facked to make it look like pigskin. There is just something about the stiching dosen't look right. I've spent many years trusting my life to leather saddlery and fittings. It is just to fancy to be military, but not quite good enough to be a European leather.