Another Unusual Holster

This elaborately laced and border tooled holster for a S&W 4” K frame seems to be a one of a kind - possibly made for the owner of the JK brand. The leather used for the holster body is continuously stamped “DRI-STEP CHROME” and “GENUINE LEATHER” as shown. I found a trademark

Oddly, it says "Dri-Step Crome", no "h". I wonder if there's any significance to that.

However, a person wouldn't normally tool or carve chrome tanned leather. The rather weak and shallow impressions on that holster may well be because it's chrome rather than the usual vegetable tanned.
 
A Colorado Saddlery holster for the Colt Woodsman with rare vertical basket weave stamping. Colorado Saddlery was founded in 1945 by four young saddle makers in Denver, Colorado. These young men had been working for the world famous Denver based H.H. Heiser Saddle Co. It was there where they learned leather craft from men who had built saddles for cowboys who rode the open range and had trailed the great herds of cattle north into Colorado. These young saddle makers were determined to carry that tradition forward into the post-World War II era and they sold holsters that are almost indistinguishable from H.H. Heiser holsters.DSCF2765.JPGDSCF2767.JPG
 
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