My first cc pistol was a CZ 45 (copy of the Browning) wish I had kept it.
I think you mean the CZ Duo. The CZ-45 is a DA-only .25. I don't think the holster in the first pic is for a Browning 1910, if the girl is American, John. Browning didn't import them here until 1954. I think the Colt .32/.380 is most likely
. But the holster might also fit the Savage and Remington pistols
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I don't think this first holster is more than a prop; I don't think she could have carried the gun it it as rigged.
I write fan fiction about a TV show set in the 1920's and have had the need to have my heroines carry concealed guns of this type. This is mostly after they've left the mysterious plateau in Brazil on which they were stranded and are living in London and at their estates in Kent and at Avebury, where one has married the Earl and become Countess of Avebury. They also had a Colt .32 on safari, as a gun for discreet carry in town. I had to figure out how they'd carry the guns to be plausible. I settled on purse carry for the Colt .32's, a Mauser .32 and a Colt .25. But when the Countess received unexpected guests one day, she just slipped a Colt .32 auto from her desk drawer, put it in her skirt waistband and donned a sweater over it. She sent the maid for her husband and her friend, Finn, whom she knew had a Colt .25 in her purse.
I don't doubt that a rig similar to the later one shown in this thread might work with a belt support and a fairly full skirt. But the idea of putting a gun in a garter isn't sound. It'd be too heavy and work loose. A garter to hold it would be too sturdy and probably cramp circulation.
One of those heroines does carry a flick knife (switchblade) in a boot, and the other has a replica of a small Gerber Applegate-Fairbairn lockblade knife that clips to the side of a bra, which is reinforced to take the wear. And the one who married the Earl used a hammerless revolver in a muff to kill a man in the two-part movie that introduced the TV series on which the fics are based. An auto pistol in a muff seems unwise. Oh: when they've carried openly, they wear S&W M&P .38's in belt holsters. (Model of 1905, 4th Change with heat-treated cylinders, although that degree of detail doesn't appear in the fics. It'd bore the average reader. ) They just rely on the small guns when discretion demands concealment.
Nice pic, though. I enjoyed it. And I'm sure that some dames of that day did indeed pack Colt .25 autos!
