Myres Made In Mexico Holster

slabsides52 · Feb 13, 2020

Several years ago, I purchased a S&W 34 in a holster marked MYRES MADE IN MEXICO. Put the revolver in the safe, conditioned the holster with Pecards and put it in my holster box. I've been sorting through some stuff since I retired, and came across this holster. I'm thinking it is a knockoff of an SD Myres holster, but would like the opinion of someone more knowledgeable than I.

Its a well made holster, with leather about .156 inches thick, and nice basket weave stamping on the front. Do you think this is a descendant of the legendary SD Myres or just a knock off using the name association.

Thanks.

crazyphil · Feb 13, 2020

If I remember right, S. D. Myres son, Dale Myres, had a business
independent of his Dad's business. And I believe his holsters were
made in Mexico.
I have encountered other Myres knock offs, but they spelled the name
the conventional way Myers. I found one in a box at a gun store one
time and thought, for a moment, that I had hit the jackpot.

turnerriver · Feb 13, 2020

It’s both actually. Sam Myres’ son Dale had a minor role in the S.D. Myres Saddle Co., after his father’s death his brother and cousin ran the company.
Not content with his role, Dale started a leather company in Mexico.

The middle holster has a screw at the bottom, it secured a bore brush which went inside the barrel when you holstered your revolver.

A Myres Made Mexican holster on the right, a Texas made S.D. Myres holster on the left.

Regards,
turnerriver

boykinlp · Feb 13, 2020

I used to think that the Myres made in Mexico were not as high quality as the Myres made in Texas holsters, but after looking at the above post, I must be wrong.
Larry

rednichols · Feb 13, 2020

To add only slightly to turnerriver's post about Myres Made holsters; Dale is actually Samuel Dale Myres Jr and was also known as Ted. Mighty confusing when trying to put what we know of Sam against Sandra Myres' bio of him (she was married to a distant relative of Sam's) because we know there is a Dale, but in her book she calls him Ted; and Sam's nephew Dace, who was the big wheel in that time, appears often there but is not a mispelling of the name Dale. Ack.

Jr. (I'll call him here) wrote a book of his own, titled The Education of a West Texan and it was published just two years before his death in 1987. Just after his father's death in '53, in 1955 he returned to the fold from his academic career (a doctorate and a professor) to find that Dace didn't want him in the small operation; too many cooks perhaps. So as Dale Myres he formed Talabarteria Fronteriza in 1956 during the height of the fast draw craze; and sold the operation explicitly because of the end of that craze in 1961.

The parallel dating with Arvo is quite precise: Arvo started up in '56 and by '61 was no longer the top maker at the Fast Draw championships in Vegas. In '62 he was both at the World's Fair in Seattle -- and about to go out of business forever by losing a lawsuit with Andy Anderson that pushed him out of California.

I have a copy of Sam/Ted/Dale/Doc/Jr's book, as does turnerriver, and I'm intrigued that Jr. has omitted his father's second wife, his stepmother; the notorious 'Miss Forkner' who it appears was Sam's leather buyer when he took up with her circa 1919 (he's divorced from Jr's mother in the 1920 census). In 1919 she was 24 and we can fill in the blanks about there. She lived only until 1928 though while first wife Druza/Drusa lived until 1958.

Speaking of books I've been handed some worthwhile information about the life and times of Ed McGivern and his book. Will post about that sometime; and about John Henry FitzGerald (correct spelling) of Colt's and the Fitz Special's fame.

SG-688 · Feb 13, 2020

turnerriver said:
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The middle holster has a screw at the bottom, it secured a bore brush which went inside the barrel when you holstered your revolver.

...
Regards,
turnerriver

In case any misunderstand: The bore brush in the bottom of the holster wasn't a self-cleaning device but rather was a retention device. Mentioned favorably by Cooper in his 1958 Trend book Fighting Handguns.

Cooper labeled it the "Medley Brush" - which might be from Kenneth J. Medley. I know nothing about Kenneth Medley except for a picture I saved from a 2010 post showing Medley as the inventor of an under the pants holster -- really under the pants, so that the handgun was drawn through the fly.

Sound silly? Smith & Wesson holsters made a version.

rednichols · Feb 14, 2020

SG-688 said:
In case any misunderstand: The bore brush in the bottom of the holster wasn't a self-cleaning device but rather was a retention device. Mentioned favorably by Cooper in his 1958 Trend book Fighting Handguns.

Cooper labeled it the "Medley Brush" - which might be from Kenneth J. Medley. I know nothing about Kenneth Medley except for a picture I saved from a 2010 post showing Medley as the inventor of an under the pants holster -- really under the pants, so that the handgun was drawn through the fly.

Sound silly? Smith & Wesson holsters made a version.

The patent:

Can't read it? If you can at least see the patent number, Google patents will find it for you straightaway, in full. Free.

Not the worst holster idea ever; and yet certainly not the best. Anyone who's pushed a new brass brush down the bore and then tried pulling back before it's all the way through will understand why and how the concept works

. To draw it, though, it would always have to reverse the brush in the bore; so then I wonder how much of that would be tolerated before the brush needed changing? I'll . . . never . . . know . . .

lestert357 · Feb 14, 2020

gwpercle · Feb 14, 2020

Thanks to all for clearing up the bore brush in the holster thing .
I had no clue for it's use...retention wasn't even considered!
Thinking about it , it sorta makes some sense ...

If this isn't the worst holster idea ever....what ideas , in your opinion , would be up in the top 10 ?
Gary

slabsides52 · Feb 14, 2020

Wow, thanks for the feed back gentlemen. I certainly learned a lot from your input. I thought this must have been a pretty good holster back in its day, and you confirmed it. Thanks.

slabsides52 · Feb 14, 2020

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"Wow, thanks for the feed back gentlemen. I certainly learned a lot from your input. I thought this must have been a pretty good holster back in its day, and you confirmed it. Thanks." I think I hit the wrong button to reply, sorry.

And mine is not one with the cleaning brush in the toe........

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