wartime modified P.04 holster?

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Jason, A very fine German Imperial Navy holster to be sure! My opinion is no better or worse than others but might be different.

Yes, Your holster has some short history of a GI butchering it. Why anyone would preserve this momentary lapse in judgement shouldn't sway what the holster was made for. It was MADE to attach to a stock that completes a rig that was made to attach to the stock lug of your fine pistol completing the ensemble as the Kaiser and the Imperial German Navy envisioned it. The slits in the back are not wanted or intended and detract greatly from the form & function of this set.



What harm could possibly come from leaving the slits for posterity & fond remembrance and replacing the missing stock block so that you could attach it to an Imperial Navy stock?


The missing/broken thread and ears on the top of the cleaning rod sleeve are the same. Incomplete. Broken, looks bad, need restoration.

If some vandal were to slash the Mona Lisa, do you suppose it would be left that way? No..a conservationist would do what was possible to restore it to it's original form.



The case scenario would be different if this were a legitimate German modification as is sometime seen..to a type 2 Imperial holster modified with German belt loops for the Marines in land warfare. But..it is not.


As your holster is in it's present form it is virtually useless except to lay on a table, face up, hiding the mutilation. Never to be attached to a stock, never to attach to your pistol as a perfectly legal short rifle. Never to fulfill it's destiny as intended. Always to be separated, slashed, mutilated & broken. But the memory of Bubba the GI or God knows who as the perpatrator who ruined this piece of history will be front & center! Is kind of a bass ackward way of thinking IMHO.

But there it is..My opinion as a fellow collector.