[lugerholsterrepair]

This is certainly an interesting piece. The spring clip and swivel are looking authentic and period.I have a steel swivel given to me by Joachim Goertz that is very similar. Rusted good though. The braided leather looks to be old as well. I would classify this as being from the turn of the Century. The elusive Portugese lanyard was purported to be made in this braided fashion. I have found no facts to support this assertion and have never seen a period photo to substantiate that there ever was a Portugese lanyard of any kind. This one, from the metal parts would have been from an earlier era. German issue lanyards were made from a round solid leather. Different in many respects but the metal is the same except most issue lanyards were made of brass. .
Most of the Luger lanyards were not made with this type of metal clip. They were made with a leather loop that slipped into the lanyard loop on the pistol so as not to mar the delicate rear of the pistol. The clip on this lanyard is seen on WW1 equiptment and hooked to such things as D rings. While this is probably a pistol lanyard, it might well be for some other pistol.One with a circular ring on the butt for instance. Could be for some other piece of eguiptment as well, binoculars or some such. . I would not hook it to any of my Lugers. It is a very nicely crafted lanyard.
Jerry Burney