In addition to examples which were black or dyed black, I've had original colors ranging from caramel to a very dark brown thru 1918. The color of the leather on my broomhandle rigs ranges about the same, with a 1918 dated piece being a deep caramel color. If there was an order requiring holsters to be black, it must have been widely ignored or else it must have been more than the proverbial 10% that didn't get the word.
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