These are merely screenshots of my hard drive subdirectories, and are not clickable; and any that show as PDFs will not open for you. This is not me being clever, this is me being lazy.
What I do with such, is to begin with a Heiser holster that I want to date. I scan across the images from the first, and the first time I see a matching image I reckon that's when the holster model was introduced. I DON'T START WITH THE MODEL NUMBER that likely won't match up with your holster anyway, because Heiser must've used a scattergun to create the numbers with them changing during the eras.
Your ability to enlarge the images will limited by your monitor size; I use a giant 30" gaming monitor but most viewers of this site use their phones. No good in this case but good enough for my usual posts.
Yes, I'd like the idea of providing you with full size images of each page but lots of trouble for me to do that. And then my catalogues are incomplete anyway. My coauthor John Witty has the only complete collection of Heiser gunleather catalogues, which we believe began with 1909 yet we are missing 1907's; Heiser only began offering gunleather in 1907 or so anyway, after Hermann's death a few years prior (so by the sons).
An additional post will be the second era for Heiser, which was beginning 1945 with the company's sale to The Denver Dry Goods that year (at War's end). This era lasted only until 1950, by which year the COO Ewald Heiser was killed and the company was sold yet again; for which there will be a third and final post to cover those years until 1968 when it ceased to include gunleather.
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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