A bit off topic, I bought a Persons #77 saddle from permaco.com, put about 100 miles on it so far with no problems. Its the first leather saddle I bought. Apparently the VO saddles have some kind of mesh on the bottom for support. The Persons saddle has no such thing, looks like one big piece of leather to me.

Supposedly modeled off of a B17 Brooks. Never owned one.