The belgian holsters have little in common with the Dutch holsters. The Belgian holsters are typically postwar, as the Belgian MDN did not adopt the 1922 model until 1945. The pattern adopted at that time was an existing commercial pattern made by Fonson in Brussels among others. The Dutch design was totally different, the leather was stiffer and the features were different.quote:Originally posted by Milo
Dutch holster is very similar to the standard Belgian holster except the front mounted magazine pouch was replaced with a side mounted cleaning rod pouch with cover.
Military holsters were mainly in black though some early ones were brown though most, if not almost all, of these have been redyed black in the years since introduction.
Police holsters were identical to military and in brown.
Seperate magazine pouches were also issued with the holsters.
Army magazine pouches were cut for two spare magazines and police were issued cut for four spare magazines.
I'm sure someone else can provide even more detail but this should give you an idea what to look for. HTH.
See The Belgian browning Pistols page 228 for the 4 magazine Koninklijke Marechausee pouch.quote:Originally posted by Dutchjoe
The Military holsters where brown and the Police holsters where black. The black police holsters are used till the FN 1922 was replaced by the Walther P5 in the late 70's.
The brown miltary holsters (used till Mai 10th 1940) have a cleaning rod pounch at the side.
The spare magazine pounches are for 2 magazines. Holster, magazines pounche, cleaning rod and spare magazines all bear the guns serialnumber !!
I have never seen black magazine pounches for 4 spare magazines, used by the police (but I don't say that I don't excist)
The police holsters have no serialnumber at last no the later ones, maybe the pre war types had but I'am not sure about that.
