Help identify Bucheimer holster
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We have some fit charts posted, but I can't make out the numbers on the back.
Is it 58 18W???
Is it 58 18W???
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I looked at the fit charts however I could not find this number/model
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My files contain all the worthwhile info about the gunleather of the 20th century. It helps to know that the Bucheimer mark on this holster is early 1970s, and here is your holster and a fitment chart from the company's 1974 catalogue. It also helps to view all these kinds of info on a desktop with a big monitor, research shows that most are using their phones and these don't display large enough (both of those numbers are '3' not '8').
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Thank you kind sir from Down Under! I have a Mac with a screen bigger than my early TV's but had a difficult time discerning what the character was after the dash...a one or an I. I do own your book and appreciate all you add to this forum.
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The Bucheimer companies used a language of their own for identifying their gunleather. In this case, 'B' is not 'black' but Bucheimer, to which I would have commented, 'well, duh' because they marked 'Bucheimer' above the number anyway. But it meant something to operations, so . . ..
The various eras of J.M. Bucheimer can be identified by years using the style of the name imprint. As mentioned the marking of the OP's holster is the 1970's mark. I could consider outlining this in a Third Ed of Holstory, as I did for Hoyt and for Myres (but I've left out Heiser because their marks all coexisted).
