worth restoring?
 

http://www.bands.sck.pl/index.php?action=Listings&cat_id0=1&cat_id1=7&cat_id2=23&i tem_id=527

rk

RK, I just bought one of these just about like this one. Tops are the hardest things to find for these. I can make any part required but it obviously better to find originals. I plan to mold one for mine and see if it turns out good enough. Hard to say about value really. To restore this one you are probably looking at $150.00, new hinge, top, cleaning rod flap etc and whatever else it might need. Oddly, from the front it looks normal but from the back it looks cutdown. Jerry Burney

RK,
I buy these when I can find them at a reasonable price and send them to Jerry Burney to use as parts (PLL for us Army guys) on future repairs. It has worked very well so far. But there was that one time when a $600 holster...but that is another story.
Tom A.

Tom,
are you still mad at losing that navy holster on Ebay to a sniper? I was looking at it until I saw your name.
Big Norm

So Tom A., if you do not mind,...please tell us what was "right" about this commercial Navy holster...so we can become a bit smarter about such things...

This amatuer was convinced it was a repro, until I saw that you had placed a bid...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2181420128

Regards,

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Me too... I would love to know how to distinguish this holster from a repro...

This holster looks 'old' but not old enough to me to be genuine... My initial thoughts were that it was a repro holster from about 3 decades ago...if it is really a genuine Navy holster... what are the signs to look for... :rolleyes:

this leather and the brass closures just don't look to be early 19th century to me... :confused:

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