[Patrick]

This is the first type of Luger holster: with a leather "hinge" between the lid and the back; the belt loops are more or less straight; there is no stitching across the back below the belt loops and the magazine pouch is not part of the back. This first type was changed around 1928. Before then, various German police forces ordered their Luger holsters to their own specifications. So this manufacturer was still making holsters according to an obsolete pre-1928 pattern in 1940 - very likely for the commercial market. Patrick