In keeping with my filing system that classifies holser makers by 'school', Ed Lewis' gunleather is classified in what I labelled as 'Spring Break'. I'm not implying that these makers are prone to broken springs!
Ed Lewis', and Ed Clark's, sprung belt holsters are virtually indistinguishable from each other's but Ed did configure his shoulder holsters differently. They're suspended from the harness very differently, the harnesses themselves are very different, and Ed used a very different spring from Clark's for the big revolvers (there were no giant autos then). Study the images and you'll realize that those holsters with preformed cylinder recesses are for DA revolvers, and those without recesses are for the autos. Once upon a time I titled each image to suit that thinking but recently converted the titles to showing only the maker's name.
The group images can be enlarged as a set, by clicking at least once on the image; then a second time to get the largest version. One cannot enlarge the individual images. Want bigger images? Get a bigger desktop monitor, mine's a 30" and the layout is optimised for me not you (no offense meant) because I created the computer subdirectories for my research vs. for publication. Don't try to learn from these images with a mobile phone!
Notice that both Clark, and Lewis, made holsters that did not have springs inside them, to compete with others of their era and for those P.D.s that avoided spring holsters like the plague.
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.
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