 Hi there, welcome. It's Tech here and this is my channel, Bootlossophy. Today I'm bringing you an unboxing of a pair of Parkhurst Richmond boots. These are factory seconds in a natural veg return from Seidel. This is the box that Parkhurst packed their boots in. This is their packing box but as part of the no-waste strategy I think that Parkhurst uses. This is also the boot box, there is no second box on the inside. So let's get this done. A couple of simple tapes across the bottom there and it opens out. There's a shipping note and the usual thank-you card from Andrew Savisco. Really lovely touch. A spare pair of round wax cotton laces, always find spare pairs useful. The boots themselves come in separate boot bags, nice canvassy ones with the Parkhurst picture of the bison on them. They used to come in black bags I think, if I remember right. So they've recently changed to white bags, so I'm really excited. Let's open these up. So these are factory seconds in what Andrew terms grade 1 factory seconds. Richmond boots in natural veg return from Seidel. Let's get the two boots up in the open. I might just turn these around, if I'll get rid of the box. Hang on a second, just be real quick here. So these are the Richmond boots, which you can tell from the toe cap. They're grade 1 factory seconds which meant that instead of selling at the retail price of $362 on the website, I got them for $327. Not much of a discount you think, so let's see what the faults are. Firstly, it's a grade 1 factory second as graded by Andrew. They're structurally sound and what grade 1 usually means is there might be color variations in the leather. The stitching could be irregular and there may be non-perfect toe caps, so let's have a look. From straight on, I honestly can't see any difference in the toe caps. They're not irregular, I don't think, from first glance. They seem pretty straight to me and they seem to be pretty even, so I don't think that's a problem. Immediately you can see a blemish on there just across the top of the toe cap, but if I wear these three times, walk a half a kilometer or so, I'm going to scuff them, so I don't mind that. A little bit of discoloring on here too, honestly, I don't think that's a problem at all. The laces that are spare are exactly the same, sometimes they come with different laces. If you look at that model, I think perhaps the light's not quite right, but the toe cap is slightly darker than the rest of the vamp, but again, I don't mind. This is natural vegetable tanned, re-tanned leather, where I think the salts have been taken out of the liquid and then it's been re-tanned. So I expect there to be variations in the natural tan color, I don't see anything issue with that. The third thing that might be wrong with it is the stitching irregularities, so I'm looking very closely. I guess you might say that's a stitching irregularity because it's not quite straight. I don't know, you be the judge. What do you think? Is that straight? Doesn't matter, honestly. It's not like torn, there are no toe holes. Oh well, there's a slight irregularity there, but seriously. I mean, you know, that really doesn't matter to me. The leather itself looks fantastic. I love light tan, natural leathers, and these are really great. I'm looking for stitch irregularities on the right boot, maybe a little bit there. Would you say that's a stitching irregularity? I don't really mind, don't really care. I don't see any stitching irregularity in the welt. It's a wheeled split reverse welt. That means the welt has been split and then reversed up the side so that it gives a little bit of extra water resistance. It's on a Ridgeway sole, which I love. It's different from a commando, but just as grippy. It doesn't pick up twigs and gravel and dirt in between the lugs. And it's also reasonably, if you see from the sides, it's reasonably flat. So it doesn't look like you're walking around in great big commando shoes about to shoot up some embassy or other. They feel quite stiff as veg tan leather. I have other veg tan leathers from Seidel as well as from Horween and a few other different tanneries on my boots. But these feel really quite stiff. They're almost as stiff as the Grant Stone saddle tan veg from Badalasi Carlo, but those are lined. These are unlined, as you can see. They're unlined in the shaft and fully lined in the vamp. The tongue is gusseted up to the fourth eyelet. Gosh, this leather is supple enough, but it feels tough. I'm really looking forward to going out on a bit of a hike in these boots. Factory seconds, Parkhurst. You know, $327 down from $362. No problems. I'm happy to buy that. I'm going to put them on. Let's see what they're like on foot. OK, so let's put these on and see what they feel like and look like on foot. The leather is actually quite a hard leather and it feels firm. The fitting, this is a size 8D, my sort of normal American heritage boot size. I've got a half size down, or in fact, exactly a half size down from my Brannock 2D size. As you can see, it's an all eyelet boot. No speed hooks. I don't mind that, although it takes a while to tie up. I won't tie my usual double knot just to save on time. I do like round laces because I feel they have a little less friction when you cinch them up last eyelet. Yeah, they're snug and I think we'll need some wearing in. I don't want to say breaking in because I don't feel any hot spots whatsoever. They feel pretty good. The Ridgeway sole is quite a thick sole, so in my other Ridgeway sole boots, I do find that I do have to break in the sole a little bit to make sure that it flexes where my foot flexes. But these feel good. I think they look quite good. I already have natural coloured can boots, but I do like them. I find I'm gravitating towards browns and tans, especially naturals. And these, I think, will patina really well. You can in fact see already that there are gradations in the colour that's going to come out. Interesting is they're not shiny, so conditioning when they need it is going to be quite interesting because I wouldn't like to put a shine on these. OK, so there we go. The Parkhurst Richmond boot in natural veg re-tan from Seidel. So there you go, guys. That's the unboxing and my initial thoughts about these Parkhurst Richmond boots in a natural veg re-tan leather from Seidel tannery. Grade one factory seconds, but, you know, honestly, no different from a pair of boots that would look like this in after days where comfortable enough. So I'm going to do the usual. I'll wear them for a few months and then I'll bring you a review of them properly. And until then, if you like what you're seeing, do me a favour and click on the like button. 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