a particular holster marked Dale Myres el Paso Mexico
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StrawHat
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Nice looking holster. With the deep trigger cut and size, I would guess that is for a self loading pistol like the Colt 1911.
Kevin
Kevin
It has El Paso and also Mexico? stamped on it. Curious about that.
OP
Sam Dale Myers' son called us the same as his father with the addition of Junior, he continued his father's work, perhaps he sought his own path beyond the border?
Despite being S.D. Myres Jr. Dale did not end up running the Myres Saddlery after Tio Sam’s death. He started a competing business selling holsters made for him in Mexico. That's a new mark to me, my Dale Myres holsters have a different stamp.
S.D. Myres holster on the left, Dale Myres Mexican made holster on the right.
Regards,
S.D. Myres holster on the left, Dale Myres Mexican made holster on the right.
Regards,
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Happy to read you. I stop worrying.
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Dale Myres Holster
Marcello,
I saw that one and, like John, it was the first time I have seen that stamp or mark that I can recall. I agree it looks to be made for a 1911.
Marcello,
I saw that one and, like John, it was the first time I have seen that stamp or mark that I can recall. I agree it looks to be made for a 1911.
Alk8944
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All the Mexico stamp means is that was a holster made in Mexico for Dale Myers, not that there is an El Paso Mexico! Note the El Paso is a normal impressed stamp, while the Mexico is an ink stamp!
THE PILGRIM
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There’s been a long time close connection to leather items made in El Paso and across the River in Juarez.
So hearing that possibly items were made over there and stamped made here is not really a huge surprise.
Forever, lots of the El Paso Leather workers have been daily crossers from Mexico.
So when they didn’t cross, many were crafting in Mexico.
Leading to a fairly commonly held belief that only difference between Jaurez and El Paso Leather goods is - our leather is superior.
So hearing that possibly items were made over there and stamped made here is not really a huge surprise.
Forever, lots of the El Paso Leather workers have been daily crossers from Mexico.
So when they didn’t cross, many were crafting in Mexico.
Leading to a fairly commonly held belief that only difference between Jaurez and El Paso Leather goods is - our leather is superior.
OP
I have reported all writing on the back side, i know very well that el Paso and Ciudad Juárez respectively located one in the USA and the other in Mexico and that el Paso in Mexico do not exist.
rednichols
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Yes he did, and was called Dale vs Junior. Which could have been more confusing because the company was run by Sam nephew Dace; first time I read through the Sandra Myers bio of Sam I thought the Dace spelling was a typo.
Dale was a university professor and after his father died he returned to El Paso but was turned away by Dace as 'no room at the inn'. Yes, as turnerriver points out, he started his own operation by buying out a Mexico operation, which he sold later when the 1950s fast draw craze died out (his words, not my interpretation of events) and the operation became Great West.
He published a book called Education of a West Texan. In it he does not mention his stepmother Eva a single time other than mentioning his father's divorce. Eva was much Sam's junior and a heroin addict. She joined the family right at the point of the Sweetwater fire and Sam shifting to El Paso to get away from the controversy of his mistress then second wife.
I have all the info that the OP has and much more, about Dale and all the other Myres-related folk. The company had many owners that did not include Dale, into the present day. A huge store of S.D. Myres company documents are online at a Texas university, the name of which I don't have recorded.
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