[PRD1]

Per request. I don't know how much these will help answer the questions posed, but I can tell you the following things from close inspection:
1. The toe of the holster has not been replaced - rather, a re-inforcement has been sewn into the inside of the toe, rather like the stiffening piece at the top-back under the belt loops, and this accounts for the stitched seam across the front of the holster.
2. There is a patch sewn on the top of the flap.
3. The flap shows no evidence of having been 'trimmed'.

PRD1 - mhb - Mike