Marked "O. Ball", Oliver was a Fort Worth city detective, a boxing referee, a gunleather maker, and a husband at least twice. His gunleather is collectible which is why he, and it, are in my book "Holstory" and it occurs to me that in a single book it's not possible to show all the variants of a maker's work. Problem solved -- I have all of every notable maker's designs, in my online directory that is in the cloud.
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!
Ball had several maker's marks. The first one is individual steel stamps such as were sold for marking metal; the earliest Berns-Marint 'Speed' holsters were done this way; the second one appears to be linotype (newspapers were 'set' this way), and the final one is a custom metal stamp, usually steel in that era.
If this post is well-received I will do the same for every notable maker. Ball comes up first in my computer's subdirectory's because it's divided into 'schools of design' and he is first alphabetically in "Texas Tech" which is a real university.
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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