WW1 conversion

lugerholsterrepair · 04-11-2014, 12:10 AM

Jeff..This is a fascinating holster..Did companies who reworked earlier holsters put the eagle stamp and their code on holsters that they modified? I cant believe that a leather company would not mark their work and I figure they would have been issued a code.
Because of the early eagle

Any company that re worked these Artillery holsters would have been decades away from and German 3 letter codes! Codes were required in 1940. This holster likely was reworked no later than the mid twenties.
Many re works were probably done pretty much by cottage industry saddlers not very large companies.
The interesting droop wing eagle stamp with the code ZaJt you see is a military acceptance. I can't remember ever seeing one on a re worked Artillery before.

04-11-2014, 12:10 AM	#2
lugerholsterrepair Moderator Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Arizona/Colorado Posts: 7,775 Thanks: 4,995 Thanked 3,134 Times in 1,439 Posts	Jeff..This is a fascinating holster..Did companies who reworked earlier holsters put the eagle stamp and their code on holsters that they modified? I cant believe that a leather company would not mark their work and I figure they would have been issued a code. Because of the early eagle Any company that re worked these Artillery holsters would have been decades away from and German 3 letter codes! Codes were required in 1940. This holster likely was reworked no later than the mid twenties. Many re works were probably done pretty much by cottage industry saddlers not very large companies. The interesting droop wing eagle stamp with the code ZaJt you see is a military acceptance. I can't remember ever seeing one on a re worked Artillery before. __________________ Jerry Burney 11491 S. Guadalupe Drive Yuma AZ 85367-6182 lugerholsterrepair@earthlink.net 928 342-7583 (CO & AZ) Year Round 719 207-3331 (cell) "For those who Fight For It, Life has a flavor the protected will never know."