Bob Wright
Hawkeye
Over on anclothother forum, someone posted a photo of a vintage holster he had just gotten his hands on. (.......sorry, ".....upon which he had just gotten his hands.")
I was musing that folks are buying older holsters and paying more for them than we used to pay for the guns. Collecting old holsters is getting to be hobby in itself.
I was musing on what we, as kids, used to call those things. Sure, we often said "holster" but frequently we used "scabbards, scalbards," and at times even "scalbert." And we never dreamed there would be holsters made from plastic or cloth. I had a few that were fake leather that rapidly deteriorated (!) especially if gotten wet. When a neighborhood kid showed up with a real leather belt and holster, he was the envy of all the rest. He had relatives in Arizona and a Mexican leather craftsman out there had made the rig.
Bob Wright
I was musing that folks are buying older holsters and paying more for them than we used to pay for the guns. Collecting old holsters is getting to be hobby in itself.
I was musing on what we, as kids, used to call those things. Sure, we often said "holster" but frequently we used "scabbards, scalbards," and at times even "scalbert." And we never dreamed there would be holsters made from plastic or cloth. I had a few that were fake leather that rapidly deteriorated (!) especially if gotten wet. When a neighborhood kid showed up with a real leather belt and holster, he was the envy of all the rest. He had relatives in Arizona and a Mexican leather craftsman out there had made the rig.
Bob Wright
