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Originally Posted by crazyphil
John, your 29B and my 34, both with the 2 Os are both basket weave.
Maybe we are on to something? I'm often told that I'm "kinda right",
so hopefully if anyone has Lawrence holsters with O or OO stamped
on the back, they will shoot a photo and post it here so we can get
to the bottom of this mystery.
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My only '00' has them overlapped and stacked, and is not basketweave. The single '0' is actually a 'o' made using a stamping tool called a 'seeder'.
Anyway, turnerriver's is the first time that I noticed that their Challenger holsters have their own, unique maker's mark:
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In my experience, changing the maker's mark is an indication of a sea change of some sort; as when a new COO appears. Bianchi's changed through the years, Safariland's, Myres', Hume's, etc. But previously there were only two Lawrence marks: the script version and the 'football' version. Challenger was late in the company's history, turnerriver can tell us exactly when it was introduced.
As a framework, Bill Lawrence Sr. died 1945 and his son took over (certainly by then, perhaps sooner), Bill Lawrence Jr. died 1984 and his own son had taken over by then, the company was sold by son/grandson Bill Lawrence III after a riding accident left him a paraplegic, 1990, to G&G; which closed it as not being a viable business.