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why not make your own version of the Swallow. Then you can claim you are able to "conduce to coolness"
the latest Cambridge Lightweight News (58) should inspire you. The article starts at p7
my latest recover (as you know) for my Hobbs, as I didn't wish to rely upon leather 69 years old to bear my weight.
my first attempt, in 2009, was Swallowesque
and how to do itor get Skully to trim one up
Short answer: 1936
Extra information: In an article 'Brooks Sporting Saddles' in The Boneshaker, 183 Summer 2010, Alexander von Tutschek wrote 'The Swallow was introduced in 1936 as a new sporting saddle and remained in production into the 1960s'.
The 1937 Books catalogue in the V-CC library records that it was
I will refrain from commenting on the copy.