Does anyone have more on this holster maker?
Kenneth H. Cox - Border Patrol holster
N.Y.C. cop Paul B. Weston writing in 1960:
Kenneth H. Cox of Knoxville, Tennessee, is a police-oriented holster maker who has designed several rugged holsters for police use. Cox brags. “I’ve over 5000 holsters in use by various police officers, state police, count, and sheriff’s deputies and have never had to replace one. In fact, when you buy one of my holsters you do not have to buy another unless you change guns because they never wear out!”
...I queried Cox on this point and he told me that down in the hill country of Tennessee, he has defied troopers to hitch up mules and pull his holsters apart. “My holsters are sewn with No. 7 Irish flax cord. That’s the same weight, but a better grade, as the flax cord used in seaming shoe soles and you know how tough it is to tear up the seam on the sole of a shoe. It has to be cut, because it just don’t [sic] tear. I put a special welt at the seam of my holsters: it’s a 5-ply. 10-ounce leather structure that is lock-stitched on a heavy duty Landis harness stitcher. My holsters hold together.”
Writer Weston was also a friend of and wrote about Chic Gaylord.