Holster Help!
 

This holster came from a fellow collector in Norway who bought it in Germany a few years ago. It was unissued, flat as a board when I got it and smells right. What the heck is it?

Seems to have come from the Ukraine like some of the other unisued holsters we have seen recently, but can't find a reference on it. E/C police marking under the closing strap, the eagle under a 10x glass is the correct late war police eagle style.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/1_copy4.jpg

Can't tell the size , but looks like a Walther PP holster? Bill

In my opinion it is phoney. There are a half dozen things that scream fake to me. Jerry Burney

Hi,

I think the holster is a postwar real one, but the marking isn't. The east-germans had a Walther-PP / PPK production line which originated from the Walther plants that ended up on the wrong side of the border. They produced their own Walther copy at the former Haenel plant, called the 'Pistole 1001'.

The form of this holster follows the police style found on post war East-Germany holsters for the P38 and the P08.

Does it have any traces of a rubber ink stamp in the flap?

I can't find an ink stamp but am now convinced the holster's marking is a fake. A fellow collector has told me it is the handywork of someone named Karl Kalber from Germany?

I am not into the holster for big money but it stinks to be taken.

Could be.

Quite a bit of old DDR stock came onto the market the last several years. I purchased a brand new P38/P08 holster that was produced in 1961 and remained in store until a couple of years ago. That one has a nice ink/rubber stamp marking with the production date and producer's code.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/61vopo5_small.jpg

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/61vopo6_small.jpg

Very nice holster, I have two of them for my post war P.38's. The ink stamp is from the Ministry of Interior and dated March of 1961. Here are my two "rigs". The first gun is a VOPO marked CZ46

http://www.p38guns.com/CZ46rig.htm

And this one which is not on my website yet.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/cz46.jpg