The Public Broadcasting System for Guns & Gunleather
- Red Nichols the Holstorian
- Mar 22, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: May 27

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. And here they take up the least space on the blog post vs. the JPG images of their individual pages; so I have many, many more articles but not in PDF form:
Books:
Book Excerpts:
Articles:
Articles about Antique Gunleather (late 1900s):
Catalogs:
Including holster fitment charts alone:
DeSantis -
Myres -
Bianchi -
Colorado & Hunter -
Sparks -
Wolfram and Colt's -
Berns-Martin -
Heiser and Keyston -
Hume -
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 that are PDFs. 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'.
To read more about it all in my book titled "Holstory -- Gunleather of the Twentieth Century
-- the Second Edition", click on the new link at top of page to review and purchase it.
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