Leather Declaration of Independence

Wow is all I can say. The leather Decoration of Independence exceeded my expectation once I received it. There was an issue with the shipping. I was notified this it was on the way and was given a USPS tracking number. For whatever reason the package didn’t get picked up or taken to the Post Office until seven days later. Don’t bother with email to solve the problem. My email wasn’t answered. I called and left a voicemail which was responded with a text message to me asking me to text them my problem. Once I did this they responded back to me within the hour saying that my purchase would get to the Post Office that day. I called them on Friday and received my purchase on Monday. It seems they overnighted it rather than through the regular mail which I was grateful for.

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Imperfect men wrote the Perfect document and we still have a ways to go to live up to all its ideas. This sturdy leather replica is a conversation piece to say the least. Love the quality and I'm extremely satisfied.

Beautiful piece of history and art. Delivered right on time for Christmas. Keep up the great work.

First off I like the item an the idea behind it. It is a great piece of leather to work with and the lettering was stamped out well but the finish work was awful. The gold lettering was horribly done some letters were not filled in all the way an a couple not at all. But the biggest issue was the fact that the gold was smeared all across it like it was just wiped on with a rag an the excess left behind. Communication by the seller is not existent as I called a few times no answer but has a recording to email so I emailed twice with no response either time. So as I was stuck with the product an wanted a nice product I took matters in my own hands an fixed it myself. I had to re-dye the leather with leather dye to a slightly darker color an put 2 coats on to cover up the gold smearing that was not on the lettering that had to be buffed off lightly and carefully. Then had to go over all the lettering by hand with a 24 karat gold leather paint. Process took months to do needless to say I have a lot of hours and money into correcting something that would have been perfect if I got the item as pictured which looks amazing an was what I was expecting. All done an said I now have a very nice leather declaration that was framed beautifully in a dark stained solid wood frame with museum glass for years of uv protection and anti glare admiring. If I didn’t have to fix it or got a replacement that looked like pictured it would be 5 stars but with work an effort put into repairing to expectations and lack of communication I was very gracious with 3 stars because of quality of underlying product.

P.s I also see other reviews that have the smearing issue probably not as bad as the one I received but still seems to be a common issue.