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Originally Posted by D Brown
The Red Label on the Ruger is for the 50th Anniversary Model, so it's not that old. It was manufactured in 1999.
I'm curious though; would you happen to know the approximate years the Bianchi 22 AUTO#89 Holster was manufactured? As I stated in the O.P., I purchased the holster new in the mid nineteen-eighties, but there's no telling how long the original dealer had the thing in his inventory before I purchased it.
Thanks for any information you may be able to provide.  |
Stopping short of going through all my Bianchi catalogues, the images I have scanned into my library indicate the holster started out as the 22 auto version of the No. 88 in 1968 (so a cutout for the trigger); became the No. 89 in the familiar profile by 1970 (so might be in the '69 catalogue of which I don't have a full copy); from recollection it became the No. 89L with sight rails when the suede lining was added; and by 1979 had become the No. 89L that you have, with the metal-reinforced sight channel (so could have appeared earlier).
Signing off again for awhile.