Boot Assembly For Shoulder Stock

[lugerholsterrepair]

Ronald, There are many points to look for to determine a real period stock boot from a repro. The stock boot is fairly complex and difficult to make with any degree of authenticity. I know because I make them. In my boots I use a leather liner. It is double thickness and a very good looking example, authentic in most respects from the outside but I do not mold in a rawhide cup. It is about the only original method I do not employ in making a complete Artillery rig.
I have never actually seen a decent repro boot. Most are made with a single leather thickness and the tabs and keepers are sewn not riveted with hand hammered rivets.
All of the genuine WW1 period Artillery boots I have seen have the reddish rawhide cup. Unless of course it is missing.
Jerry Burney