They are sister companies.

It's all very muddled, even after looking for corporate records. Red has an as-much-as-we-know summary in one of his recent blog entries. This is discussed in a couple of previous entries.

J. M. Bucheimer Co (Frederick, Maryland)
An old line company dating to the turn of the century (that other one) as a holster company. Bucheimer ended in the late 1980's, acknowledging guesswork because of our lack of official records.

Bucheimer-Clark Corp, 6314 S. Broadway, Los Angeles 3, California.
A merger of Bucheimer and the LA based Clark holster company - dating to about 1930 - incorporated in 1959. Dissolved in 1970 when both came under the Tandy corporation. The last B-C catalog we have is dated 1978.

Some of us consider B-C to have had a slightly higher quality product, in general, as also the Clark product line. Original owner Ed Clark patented a spring retention holster (Berns-Martin had to acknowledge the Clark patent). Both Ed and son Earl were prolific designers with Earl later working for Safariland. Bucheimer had some top designers - Kippen - on payroll too, but I'm a fan of Clark, so I'll emphasize them.

And then there were holsters marked Thompson, Thompson-Clark and Clark (Anaheim) using the B-C designs. Red was acquainted with Thompson as an LA company attempting inroads into the 70's police market. Then holsters from the other two have popped up recently. Dunno...

clark holster co. LA California

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