From my reads, holster manufacturing was pretty much a cottage industry -- most leather work in Europe, for that matter. They were given "spec contract" and some latitude on tolerances so long as they fell within an acceptable range, which accounted for degrees of variation of flap shape, color, shape, etc., and volumes could be written on the myriad of Ersatz holsters and equipment that came about from the two great wars and the depression in between...
and all that having been said...
That slab of extra leather in back of that 1940 is extraordinary. perhaps it was reinforcing a splice on some scrap leather used in one or more of the pieces that had been sewn on the back...
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