Interesting Holster Snap...
 

...do not know if the holster is as it is descibed, but thought the snap/button looks alot like the ones seen on Dutch holsters and magazine pouches...(???).

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Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

Pete, that type snap also can be found on the scabbards of German trench knives. It also appears on the tool pouch of my recently acquired post WWI artillery holster.

Pete I to have a P38 holster with the same snap mine
was a vet piece given to me with the P38 . The gun
was a junker. It along with the holster were fished out
of a pond in 1945 .Gun completly ruined . Holster not
much better. But it sure has that snap on it.

From what I can tell after looking at this stuff for years is that this was a common snap cover design in Europe for half a Century.

I wish I could find an unused box of them in various sizes......

Jerry Burney

Hi,

It's interesting to know that one of the snap button producers was a company called 'DWM'.

They actually used modified primer making machines after 1920, desperate to find ways to preserve machinery from being taken away as a result of the Versailles treaty.

What an interesting history fact Gerben...

John,

Seeing this particular pattern on pushbuttons, used on different military equipment, I'm starting to wonder if these can indeed be traced back to DWM manufacture.

Production lasted from 1921 to 1924 and they sold to Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the USA. Most machines were refitted for ammo-production afterwards.

I have a private purchase German trench knife that I know predates 1918. The closure strap on the scabbard is woven and it is kept in place with exactly the same snap. So I am certain that this pattern snap was in use during the first war and I have other items that indicate its use continued through the twenties and into the second war.

Interesting,

Now if we could only figure out who produced them. Would be really nice to know. It seems that DWM's production window was too small to account for these.