It's interesting that I stumbled on this thread today as I was writing this morning in a book on which I'm working about the Shanghai Municipal Police Reserve Unit about W. E. Fairbairn's Fitz Special. As big a fan as WEF was of the 1911 he carried a Fitz New Service for many years as did his son. The Fairbairn Fitzs were built at the SMP Armory. When I was visiting WEF's daughter Dorothea one time, I took her to lunch at the local pub and almost choked on my Strongbow cider when she mentioned that after her father died she turned his Fitz into the police to be destroyed! Also, I note my friend Lefty's post. Because of his long experience making holsters for bigbore snubs his are the holsters I use and always recommend for these guns.