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Red Nichols the Holstorian
3 days ago3 min read
Tom Threepersons' Holster, California Style: UPDATED
Surely it's not coincidence, that a Bucheimer-Clark holster of the early 1960s is the closest production replica to Tom Threeperson's...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Jan 151 min read
"Campus Police": What Do Famous Texas Rangers' Holsters Look Like?
Remember that my field of study focuses on the innovation in the 20th century, so here I show you only gunleather of famous Rangers early...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Jan 132 min read
"MidWestern School": What Do Early Heiser Holsters Look Like?
The Heiser company is one of the very oldest of gunleather makers, but the company was not a gunleather maker in Hermann Heiser's time. ...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Jan 132 min read
"Sunday School": What Do Late Brill Scabbards Look Like?
What we call the Brill today was created by August Brill's predecessor Charles Kluge which are (a) unmarked with the Brill name and (b)...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Jan 122 min read
"Spring Break": What Do Lewis Holsters Look Like?
In keeping with my filing system that classifies holser makers by 'school', Ed Lewis' gunleather is classified in what I labelled as...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Jan 122 min read
"Texas Tech": What Do O. Ball Holsters Look Like? Updated
Marked "O. Ball", Oliver was a Fort Worth city detective, a boxing referee, a gunleather maker, and a husband at least twice. His...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Jan 113 min read
The Last Word on Holstory -- Holster History of the 20th Century
To build the book required ten years of research online, and 50 years of first-hand experience in the gunleather industry. But it wasn't...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Aug 30, 20242 min read
Appendix Carry Kills: AIWB is Spelled "WTF!"
A recent thread on a holster forum reminds me, that some folks fight, for the right, to carry AIWB. Often there will be a challenge,...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Apr 24, 20243 min read
'Conjunction Junction, What's Your Function?" -- The FBI 'Tilt'
My daughter was a newborn when Sesame Street appeared and she would recite that line in her car seat. Here I'm inspired to use it...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Apr 21, 20244 min read
Something You Thought You Knew But Didn't
A tight-fitting holster that 'needs break-in' is not what you thought it was: if it's been wet-moulded as has been the practice since...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Mar 5, 20243 min read
"It Ain't Necessarily So" -- UPDATED
Title of a gospel song, and mentions David's "alleged" slaying of Goliath. We weren't there for the battle so who can argue one way or...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Feb 14, 20243 min read
The Stars Come Out. Again.
Well down within this blog is a post about the film stars and their gunleather. Since then my compilation has been updated substantially....
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Feb 11, 20243 min read
Too Blatant to Ignore
For years I operated on the theory that Paris Theodore's designer was not him, but instead a another New Yorker named Bob Angell. I know...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Dec 23, 20234 min read
Apple of my Eye -- The Bianchi #9R Shoulder Holster
After my three adult children, of course: the Bianchi No. 9R-2 shoulder holster. Although, full disclosure, because I'm a Trump voter...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Dec 12, 20231 min read
Unsafe at Any Speed: Dirty Harry and the Third Edition (of Holstory the Book)
(With apologies for the title to Kenny Rogers and the First Edition) I gave Jerry Ardolino and his consumer-hostile family a calendar...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Nov 30, 20232 min read
What a Pain in the ASS!
"Shut you mouth! But I'm talkin' about Shaft ! Then we can dig it!" Nope, not Shaft, I'm speaking of 'policeman's hip' which virtually...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Nov 9, 20233 min read
"It Must Be Jelly 'Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That!"
That really is the correct way to say that, because the headline is from a Glenn Miller single of 1944. Even the year is perfect for...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Oct 25, 20232 min read
We Have to Talk About Chic (Gaylord)
I keep track of publicity linked to me, and that led me to this very interesting website that has on display, the appearance of Chic...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Oct 25, 20233 min read
The Guns of Gonzaullas
"Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas, 1940s Texas Ranger, is a legend and he left behind many artefacts including his engraved pistols and holsters. ...
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Red Nichols the Holstorian
Oct 17, 20231 min read
"Holstory" is at the Library of Congress :-)
As promised to the very unpleasant (like that?) Texans at Lawman Leather, my book "Holstory -- Gunleather of the Twentieth Century" now...
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