This one will be updated often, and the updates won't appear at the beginning of the post; but rather in category then date order.
PDFs represent the tiniest fraction of my holstorical holdings that instead are nearly all JPG images, for ease of visual searches for, say, the appearance of a particular model in a company's catalogs. The PDFs are only useful to me because they c/b word-searched. For example my catalogs are complete for most makers back 100 years but are not in PDF form so not shared here, that w/b crazy with 30,000 files that include newspaper appearances, business filings, obituaries, etc.
Books:
Articles:
Catalogs:
Including holster fitment charts alone:
DeSantis -
Myres -
Bianchi -
Colorado & Hunter -
Sparks -
Wolfram and Colt's -
Berns-Martin -
Heiser and Keyston -
Hume and Herrett's -
Galco and Jackass -
Safariland -
Bucheimer companies -
Safety Speed -
Andy Anderson -
Alessi -
Roy Baker -
Bruce Nelson -
Seventrees -
SNICK -
Rogers -
Gunleather Patents -
There are hundreds of seminal patents but here I've only posted those I've on hand. Few people including lawyers can 'read' a patent; for example, the 1929 patent to E.E. Clark (see that year below) is only for the offside attachment of the shoulder holster harness and is not 'directed' to the invention of the holster itself; which was 'in the prior art'.
Read more in my book titled "Holstory -- Gunleather of the Twentieth Century -- the Second Edition" that is available at www.holstory.com and printed for you/shipped to you in USA.
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