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Red Nichols "The Holstorian"
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Join date: Apr 30, 2020
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Red Nichols is the author with John Witty of the 2018 reference book titled "Holstory - Gunleather of the Twentieth Century", 2nd Ed copyright 2022. He served the gunleather industry itself from 1970 after joining Bianchi Holster as chief designer until 1990, and continued his design work from1990 with two dozen more makers as Nichols Innovation until retiring to Australia 2000. He fully retired as a gunleather designer/maker in 2020 on his 70th birthday. His most famous possession? He owns the famed "Berns-Martin" registered trademark of James Bond shoulder holster fame. Much more about Red Nichols' biography is at www.originaldirtyharryholster.com .

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Apr 21, 2025 ∙ 1 min
Bucheimer & Bucheimer-Clark Fitments
I hesitate to create this post about Bucheimer fitment charts, because it's going to be lengthy yet the brand is not collectible save for...
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Apr 21, 2025 ∙ 4 min
The Bucheimer Companies by Era
A good friend of mine has a lengthy thread on smith-wessonforum.com about the Bucheimer companies' fitment numbers, in the forum's...
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Mar 18, 2025 ∙ 6 min
Revisiting the "Catalogue" Holster: Wyeth Hardware in MO
Reproduced from my original post on Coltforum.com recently. By all means look on this blog for my post "What Do Wyeth Holsters Look...
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