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Originally Posted by rednichols
Indeed Heiser-Keyston was located at a Cherokee address in Denver 1945 until at least 1970 or so. Learn more about today's company at Keyston Bros.. I just have no evidence past 1968 (Keyston catalogue with a few holsters on it and still showing Heiser-Keyston there) beyond that date. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Except 1970 is where my personal experiences in the holster industry takes over, and until this century I had not even heard of them (they were not a competitor).
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That actually fits. These were not "new" 1979-vintage holsters; they simply had a bunch of them in boxes at the uniform division. The department used these at least as far back as the early 1950s. Colorado State Patrol used a nearly-identical holster around the same time.
Red, do you have any photos or pdfs of those catalogs? Thanks!