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Old 10-29-2017, 06:05 PM
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The Voss:

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Voss was a saddler in Orange TX and one of a half dozen makers, including Myres, who cloned the Brill but with their own small changes. It was Sessums who got the closest, and he added some nice touches of his own including internal 'welting' to provide standoffs for the mag button on the auto.

Which reminds, that I only recently realised the significance of a 1916 patent I encountered some 30 years ago: what we now know is the classic Shelton-Payne Arms holster. It included a second panel inside, that was quite like the outer pocket, the purpose of which was to provide a standoff for the mag button. To W.H. Shelton himself, who had formed and then sold off the original El Paso Saddlery Company; which immediately failed whilst Shelton prospered selling arms to both sides of the conflict with Mexico (it was Villa's fear that he wouldn't get his guns from Shelton-Payne that caused the incursion into USA that caused the Mexican Puntive Expedition led by Patton and allegedly involved Tom Threepersons). Small world.
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