Please Help to ID this Holster and Tool thank you!
 

hi , i recently picked this up and was wondering what it belonged to. the holster appears to have no stampings on it , it looks like world war one but could mistaken....what is the pencil sized compartment on the side?........the tool and holster are pictured below....any help would be great thanks guys!!

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WW1 style (actually earlier than that) as that is a cleaning rod next to the magazine pouch.

Very nice holster

Jake, I am interested in your holster & tool if you ever decide to sell..or trade. It's a commercial. Not a Military.
Jerry

so theres no chance of it being from ww1? who makes this holster ? it has no makers marks that i can see

Jake, It's of the era..likely before the war or after. You can never say never or ever but this is not made in the military fashion/spec. It's commercial. Commercials were rarely maker marked and not commonly dated so you will never know the answers you seek. They are not stamped on the holster. Military holsters WERE mostly maker marked and dated. I would guess the Germans had ideas about using those 2 things for a specific reason they required them.

Of interest as well are the pigskin back and the two compartment tool pouch, (for a takedown punch as well as the loading-stripping tool).

Also interesting that the belt loops are vertical, and not at the typical angle of wartime holsters.

Thanks for te input guys

It is a typical 1910 commercial holster. Holsters of this kind were sometimes used by officers who had to buy Luger and holster. You can see these types in sale catalogs until the 1920th. One can say they are rare.
The tool is not correct. A power proof stamp on a tool does not make any sense.
Best regards
Klaus

Klaus, I agree. No reason for an Erfurt test fire proof on a tool. Nice commerical holster. TH