[keoki7]

Still going through pictures...

This is a holster I bought from a private WWI museum in Pennsylvania a couple of years ago. I also bought a canvas TM08 carrier and a WWI lanyard attached to a P08.

What makes this piece odd is that it is coated with what seems to be a rubber paint. The fellow who owns the museum told me that it was the second he had seen.

Has anyone here ever seen such a holster? Any idea as to what the story behind it might be?

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[keoki7]

Second try...any ideas on this holster?

 

[huggiebear]

There are some substances that the Germans used in WW2 which was waterproofing but haven't heard one for WW1. The substances that I am familiar with was applied with a brush or wipe cloth. This doesn't mean that they didn't use it , just that I have not seen it used on this period of holster before. I wouldn't be too concerned about it. It is just another variation, uncommon one at that. Do you want to sell it ????

 

[keoki7]

Thnks kk for your input. Not interested in selling now but who knows when I might need bail money.

 

[lugerholsterrepair]

George, I have seen one other of these only from the WW2 era as I recall. Robert Tracy owns it or did last I saw it. The finish looked original to the manufacture. Not put on after the holster was made. Certainly unusual. Same color and had a plastic/rubber/paint feel to it. Jerry Burney