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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Feb 14
- 2 min
In Living Colour: Chic Gaylord
It's 1955 and Chic Gaylord puts out his only catalog that is still encountered today and accompanied by price lists of various dates of t...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Feb 11
- 5 min
Whassat?
It's found on the backside of most vintage gunleather and it even has a fancy name -- but it's a label given by folks who don't know what...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Feb 8
- 2 min
In Living Colour: the Sequel
Examples of Seventrees Ltd. products have survived into the present day, that are NOT in the known catalog pages. Nevertheless, several ...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Jan 29
- 2 min
Damned copycats
All my professional life, other holster makers have been copying my innovations and dammit, I'm not 'flattered'. Instead I reckon that t...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Jan 18
- 3 min
Father of the Buscadero
Captain J.R. Hughes is the most influential Texas Ranger for gunleather development and his service with the Rangers didn't much outlast ...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Dec 27, 2020
- 3 min
Huh. The Berns-Martin "Lightning" shoulder holster
I do hate it when we discover that the information has been staring us in the face all along, such as the date the famous Berns-Martin Li...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Dec 6, 2020
- 6 min
"Jelly" Bryce and his Myres holster
My interest in D.A. 'Jelly' Bryce is relatively new; formed during the research for "Holstory" the book. His name simply kept cropping u...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Dec 5, 2020
- 6 min
Elmer Keith's rare Berns-Martin "Speed" holsters
We know a surprising amount about the very first Berns-Martin "Speed" holsters ever made, because they were made for Elmer Keith. And we...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 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, 2020
- 2 min
The cold case of Carla Walker
It's not often that a notorious crime can be associated with gunleather makers; the standout being the murder of President Kennedy (Jack ...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Nov 13, 2020
- 5 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
- Sep 22, 2020
- 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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