The cocoa bean (cacao bean) (Theobroma cacao), Plantation Roca Monte Cafe, Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, Atlantic Ocean, Africa

Leather Coral Polyps (Sarcophyton sp) each extending its 8 arms to try catching plankton in water. Coral Polyps are individual animals having a common base (in this case, the leathery base). Derawan, Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Leather shoes, moccasins made of fur and straw in the Oetzi or Iceman Museum in Oetzi Village, Tyrol, Austria, Europe

Seal leather boots made by Inuit in Ikerasak, Greenland, North Atlantic

Personal organizer, Filofax, ball point pen

Books with leather binding

Polo player with knee pads, Snow Arena Polo World Cup 2010 polo tournament, Kitzbuehel, Tyrol, Austria, Europe

Saddle with saddle blanket on a dressage horse

Reading glasses resting on an open page of an old encyclopaedia, leather bound books

Shoes in a shoe market, Wernigerode town, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

Old-fashioned wooden snowshoes, Quebec, Canada

Traditional Moroccan leather slippers in the souq, market, in the Medina, historic district, Marrakech, Morocco, Africa

Old leather bound encyclopaedia

Close-up of Leathery Barrel Sponge (Geodia Neptuni) underwater, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras