In 1941, the burnished patina of an all American baseball glove inspired the founder of Coach to create a new collection of handbags from the same luxuriously soft gloved hand leather.

Syria asserts that the analyses performed at Dura Europos reveal an external patina that contains many black metal oxides and carbon particles typical of air pollution as well as small quantities of vanadium, nickel, chromium, lead and many trace elements.