Probably not worth trying to sew up the tears. Email Brooks. Ask them to replace the hide. They do salvage old saddles (the frame and tension bolt are probably fine). Those old Professionals are excellent. It would be good to see if they could replace the rivets as they are there, as they do bigger copper hand beaten ones, on Team Professionals now. But the machined rivets there are what makes this the old one. The hand beaten ones are very nice however, so settle for that if they can't replace those rivets exactly.
Probably not worth trying to sew up the tears. Email Brooks. Ask them to replace the hide. They do salvage old saddles (the frame and tension bolt are probably fine). Those old Professionals are excellent. It would be good to see if they could replace the rivets as they are there, as they do bigger copper hand beaten ones, on Team Professionals now. But the machined rivets there are what makes this the old one. The hand beaten ones are very nice however, so settle for that if they can't replace those rivets exactly.