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Originally Posted by boykinlp
Did one of you folks get this Kluge holster today?
Larry
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I corresponded w/ the seller and told him what he had; he should've stuck to his guns on price, he gave it away :-).
FYI, this is the earliest known of the Brills; one attributed to Butch Cassidy that appears to bear no Brill marking (but the auction page claimed one anyway in which case it didn't belong to Butch). Butch was killed 1908 and the scabbards appeared 1905 w/out the Brill marking. The carving of these earliest Brills is unique from the later Rabensburgs:
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Either the cuff has been moved later -- the cuff is meant to be up around the frame -- to fit a wider belt (we have many photo examples of this surgery) or Charles Kluge was just beginning to perfect his design. The perfected version always has the cuff at the frame and then the fold
moved further from the holster for a wider belt.
This one for the wider belt is Jerry Campbell's so very late 1930s when the future FBI agent was at Oklahoma City P.D. with Jelly Bryce.
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Both men joined Treasury 1934 and are better known for their Myres Threepersons holsters. This is Jelly:
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