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Old 08-07-2015, 08:02 PM
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Looking for some help, since I know next to nothing about holsters. Here's one I picked up recently...it has S & W in big letters stamped inside the belt flap. It doesn' seem to fit my Model 37 and a 4" K frame just about falls out. Any ideas about what gun this is for? And, perhaps the time frame when these were made. Thanks for any guidance you can offer.
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If it's a Smith& Wesson sold holster, which I doubt, it will have the model numbers stamped on the back. Tell us those numbers and we can identify the model for which it was made. Smith & Wesson made hoisters will have the S&W logo stamped on the back, not " S&W", so I believe your holster is not a S&W product, but made by another maker. The picture you posted does not match the style of any original S&W factory holster. Your comments would indicate it's for an N Frame size gun or perhaps a large frame semi-auto. Ed.
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The top front looks as though it may have been cut down, The size you describe would be and "N" frame.
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Thank you opoefc and Tom Kent. Your advice encouraged me to look a bit more carefully......here are a couple more photos showing the back of the holster (the top isn't cut, it just bends back over to create a belt loop). The letters that I thought were S & W are not....after prying the back apart, and upon closer inspection they appear to be the initials S.J.W. - perhaps the person who made it. Certainly not an S&W product as you suspected. Again, thanks for your help.
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