SEVENTREE'S HOLSTER DESIGNS

[crazyphil]

I found a Seventrees catalog on line, posted by Red Nichols, and
made a copy. If you are interested, it is easy to find with the
help of Mr. Google.

Reading the catalog this morning, a couple of things got my
attention.

Quite a few folks on this forum think that getting a holster wet
is a bad thing. If I get a pre-owned holster, like from ebay, I
always give them a bath in warm water with a couple of drops
of Dawn.

I thought it interesting that Paris said: "After each holster is
stitched and dyed, it is cased or wet down in our specially
formulated solution".

Another thing I found interesting was the 1969 pricing:
Seventrees SSS model (below on the left with my Model 19)
was $15.95.
Seventrees Scorpion (2nd from left with Colt's Agent) was $16.50
Those 2 are the only ones I have at this time, but Ken Null bought
Seventrees patterns, and I have a few from him.
RSS Revolver Super Speed (3rd from left with my Model 10 2"),
VAM Vampire driver's holster (4th from left with my S&W 642-1) and
IWB Gibson Covert (5th from left with Colt's Agent).
The holsters Ken made did cost a little bit more than the prices
shown in the catalog for the Seventrees holsters.

[turnerriver]

A friend asked me to go with him to a gun shop in the next county, he’d called them about a Smith & Wesson revolver he’d seen on their table at a gun show-they still had it so off we went. As he was making his deal I noticed some ziplock bags hanging way up on the walls with holsters in them. I could barely make out one that looked like a little snub nose holster, I asked another counter guy if I could take a look at it. It’s the middle one in the bottom row in the photo and it was the only Chic Gaylord holster. I asked him how much, countered his price and said I’d take it. The next half hour resulted in 8 more ziplocks coming down from the walls, each one was priced, I’d counter and take it. They got cagier around the 5th holster but we came to terms and I bought them all.
I’d never seen so many Seventrees holsters in one place. The owner of the shop had recently died, the guys behind the counter were buying the shop from his wife. One of them said there were more holsters at the wife’s house, the owner had liked gun leather. I spent the next three years occasionally stopping by or calling, leaving my card, I even brought them a copy of Holstory and showed them the page with their former holsters on it.
All to no avail-I never saw another holster. I’m not complaining, I still have some of them and I really enjoyed stumbling into them. I keep my eyes open and I always look up on the walls in a gun shop.
Regards,
turnerriver

[crazyphil]

John - and you let me have the little black Chic Gaylord bottom row middle
and the Seventrees just to the right of it, or one very much like it. They are both keepers.