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lugerholsterrepair · 08-10-2008, 03:27 PM

Went..Recently on my trip to DC I was fortunate enough to be invited to a collectors home where I looked at something over 200 luger holsters. Many of these Gentlemens holsters made the one we are discussing look well used.
Yes. There are many out there in exceptional shape. I have a light yellow tan DLU 1940 that is virtually mint. It came to me as a walk in at a Phoenix AZ gun show.
Like pistols... one must actually look at the holster with a critical but knowledgable eye. If you go to Ebay and look over the selection of repro Luger holsters offered there for 50 bucks or so you will immeditiately see the HUGE differences in quality.
The Germans at this point had been crafting leather for hundreds of years. Leather items were a central point of their society. During WW2 there were still hundreds of thousands of horses. So much equiptment was leather it is a wonder they could keep up with it!
I am a rank amature to their poorest Saddler. Perhaps in another 20 years or so I can get out of the apprentice stage...

Jerry Burney

08-10-2008, 03:27 PM	#15
lugerholsterrepair Moderator Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Arizona/Colorado Posts: 7,775 Thanks: 4,995 Thanked 3,134 Times in 1,439 Posts	Went..Recently on my trip to DC I was fortunate enough to be invited to a collectors home where I looked at something over 200 luger holsters. Many of these Gentlemens holsters made the one we are discussing look well used. Yes. There are many out there in exceptional shape. I have a light yellow tan DLU 1940 that is virtually mint. It came to me as a walk in at a Phoenix AZ gun show. Like pistols... one must actually look at the holster with a critical but knowledgable eye. If you go to Ebay and look over the selection of repro Luger holsters offered there for 50 bucks or so you will immeditiately see the HUGE differences in quality. The Germans at this point had been crafting leather for hundreds of years. Leather items were a central point of their society. During WW2 there were still hundreds of thousands of horses. So much equiptment was leather it is a wonder they could keep up with it! I am a rank amature to their poorest Saddler. Perhaps in another 20 years or so I can get out of the apprentice stage... Jerry Burney __________________ Jerry Burney 11491 S. Guadalupe Drive Yuma AZ 85367-6182 lugerholsterrepair@earthlink.net 928 342-7583 (CO & AZ) Year Round 719 207-3331 (cell) "For those who Fight For It, Life has a flavor the protected will never know."