Let's see your Audley holsters :-)

[digi-shots]

I have a couple... the first one has the trigger lock but is not marked on the back.



Colt m1903:


Here's a Victory in an Audley... even though they didn't come together, the trigger guard on the gun has a wear spot where it appears an Audley "button" has dinged it up.

***just realized this is a Jay-Pee and not Audley holster. I believe either holster lock would have caused same ding on the trigger guard.

 

[digi-shots]

Here's a close up of the rubbed area caused by the trigger lock:

 

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Just finished finishing this one (at left in photo), it's amazing what a little bit of neutral Kiwi can do for plain unfinished leather.

 

[rednichols]

Just finished finishing this one (at left in photo), it's amazing what a little bit of neutral Kiwi can do for plain unfinished leather.

These holsters appear to be modern. What's their back story?

 

[digi-shots]

I use neutral kiwi also... I know some folks like to keep 'em like they find them, but the neutral wax protects it from and dirt and gun oil stains.

 

[-db-]

These holsters appear to be modern. What's their back story?

Red, there's a seller on one of the auction sites who recently listed a bunch of new old stock east coast maker (Audley, JayPee, Cobra, DeSantis, etc.) holsters. I don't know where they were found.

 

[rednichols]

Searching for information about these lesser-publicised makers leads to some serendipitous discoveries.

That's because of what's called the Butterfly Effect in physics, which holds that a small change at the beginning creates a big change at the end.

A search on Newspapers.com using the search terms "Lewis" and "holster" turned up nothing at all about Lewis. Instead it produced an unexpected result: a 1938 article about Capt. A.H. Hardy teaching Clark Gable how to make holsters.

Gable was at the peak of his career and in his late '30s while Hardy was in his late '60s.

 

[digi-shots]

Hope this isn't too much of a drift...

Lewis holsters..... "just the facts, Ma'am"....

 

[crazyphil]

Searching for information about these lesser-publicised makers leads to some serendipitous discoveries.

That's because of what's called the Butterfly Effect in physics, which holds that a small change at the beginning creates a big change at the end.

A search on Newspapers.com using the search terms "Lewis" and "holster" turned up nothing at all about Lewis. Instead it produced an unexpected result: a 1938 article about Capt. A.H. Hardy teaching Clark Gable how to make holsters.

Gable was at the peak of his career and in his late '30s while Hardy was in his late '60s.

Red, did you happen to find that Baker ended up being owned
by Pioneer Tent & Awning (who had previously acquired Eubanks)? I heard, or read, that somewhere a while back.