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Nov 19
1 min

Make mine rare, please

I suppose this one's about that one catalog, that a collector would need to complete a full series of catalogs from a single maker. It's...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Nov 13
2 min

The mysterious case of Carla Walker

It's not often that a notorious crime can be associated with gunleather makers! And here it is Texas detective Oliver Ball whose final c...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Nov 13
4 min

My blog resumes (my editor insisted!)

The most useful (to Democrat anarchists) posts having been deleted, my blog resumes with the trivia about gunleather that never ceases to...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Oct 31
5 min

"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die".

So says Goldfinger in the film of the same name, and presumably in Ian Fleming's book of that name, too. And today, Bond did die: Sir T...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Oct 31
1 min

"Felix Leiter" was a Texas Ranger

I've not a lot of information about "Gus" Jones but his bio makes it clear that this former Ranger who was the FBI's liason in the Caribb...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Oct 9
5 min

Pressing the flesh

Leather is 'two faced': it has one face that is the grain side and the opposite face is the flesh side. The grain side is typically wha...

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Lost and found -- Ed Lewis and his Lewis Holster Co.

Red Nichols, Holstorian

Sep 22
4 min

Lost and found -- Ed Lewis and his Lewis Holster Co.

For awhile I had considered the possibility, though farfetched, that Ed Lewis of Lewis Holsters didn't exist, but was an alter ego of Ed ...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Sep 22
5 min

Hoytology

We've finally nailed down the chronology of the R.H. Hoyt holster company, including that Dick Hoyt's company had five distinct eras. Th...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Sep 11
2 min

The wife of James Bond is dead

We grieve at news of the belated death of James Bond's first, and only, wife; the Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo who was played in the film v...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Sep 9
3 min

Nope, 's'not a Threepersons

A post on a forum causes me to make mention, that the Threepersons for the revolver and the Threepersons for the automatics are not only ...

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Maker Chic Gaylord was also an artist and writer.

Red Nichols, Holstorian

Sep 7
1 min

Maker Chic Gaylord was also an artist and writer.

And he had high visibility during JB's formative years, with Chic's ability to garner press for himself even if he had to write the story...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Sep 7
2 min

Would you know it if you saw it?

Or, "Rarely seen Bianchi holsters". And I've added more at the end of this post :-) The original Number One 'Lawman' holster had no stra...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Aug 14
4 min

Touched by an Angell

This particular holster is at once well-known, and obscure. If one is a real gunleather aficionado one has seen at least the images. An...

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Mythbuster -- Tom Threepersons' Treasury Badge

Red Nichols, Holstorian

Aug 12
4 min

Mythbuster -- Tom Threepersons' Treasury Badge

Early on in my research about Tom Threepersons, I contacted The Autry Museum about his revolver that had been in JB's collection when the...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Jul 15
5 min

You say it's HOW old?!

Working out when an item of gunleather was made, especially a holster, would seem a daunting task suited only the hyper-experts and museu...

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Bucheimer, Clark, Bucheimer-Clark, Clark, Clark, Thompson . . .

Red Nichols, Holstorian

Jul 11
3 min

Bucheimer, Clark, Bucheimer-Clark, Clark, Clark, Thompson . . .

The below image is clue no. 1: Let's help out a friend who is fielding some disjointed queries about several makers who all have somehow ...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Jul 3
6 min

Your holster is an open book

We could go too far with that metaphor and so I'm not speaking of 'spine' or 'cover' even if there could be valid parallels. But "Ed McG...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Jun 30
3 min

The gold standard, literally

We've all seen those forum posts, when an early 20th century Sears ad is posted showing what a Colt or Smith, or even a holster, was reta...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Jun 26
6 min

Temper, temper!

"Temper" is a word little-used by leathersmiths, although they are of course very aware of it in principle. From a tanner it means the r...

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Red Nichols, Holstorian

Jun 25
10 min

It has style, it has grace

Let's see if I can avoid making this too simplistic: the elemental styles of holsters, in alphabetical order. Always be aware that ther...

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