Holster question
 

Is there a site I can go and try to figure out something about the holster I have?

The holster I got with my 1917 DWM isn't the "normal", i.e., wrap-around full-case holster--it resembles a PPK holster in that the butt of the gun sticks out...

I don't have a digital camera, so I can't put up photos of it, but it has a top flap with a metal button (brass?) as the tab, with a corresponding 1" x 3" strap...the magazine pocket fits the Luger magazine (angled on the bottom equalling the "rake" of the Luger magazine feed lip area), but there is not a tool pocket...medium brown in color (black inside) with faded white lettering inside the flap. The words "LNZ 194?" and "P3???" within a white border rectangle appear inside the flap.

At the muzzle area, the holster is enclosed.

Any help will be appreciated... :)

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Hi JohnB,

I know a calypso song about a sloop with your name..

You have a P-35 (Browning Hi-Power) holster, not a P-08 holster from your description.

Hope this helps,

Tom A.

So would this be a German (Reich) holster? Or a British? The Germans did use the P-35, yes?

But then the magazine pouch wouldn't fit...I used to have a Browning Hi-Power, and it has a double-stack mag--the pocket is 3/8" thick (about right for a single-stack mag like the p08 or p38)

I'm thinking it might be a P-38...but I don't know.

...and I can sing, too!

*adopts high, squeeky voice:*

We come on the sloop John B
My grandfather and me
Around Nassau town we did roam
Drinking all night
Got into a fight
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up
I wanna go home..

*Karaoke machine breaks...*

:) Well, almost!

http://users.hol.gr/~militari/FT37.jpg

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...item=753200815

This holster is almost identical, except the mag pocket is shaped for the Luger...and of course it's a bit larger to fit the P-08. There are no 3R proof marks on it, though.

That looks a lot like a Radom holster to me.

Tom A.