Posted: 2/27/2009 11:06:51 AM EDT
As the story goes....this holster and a P38 (which no longer exists) were liberated from a German Airman at the end of war by my Uncle. I now own the holster, but have never seen pictures of this type of holster anywhere. Can anyone tell me if this is German issue? It's not a matter of worth, just curious.
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| I can't say for sure how old the holster is other than I know for a fact it's at least 40 years old. I remember the first time I saw the P38 in it. I would have been about 10 years old. My dad and his brother have long since passed away, so there's no way of checking beyond my knowledge of it. As far as marking; I just picked it up and went over the whole thing. Not one mark on it. Nothing. Just the holster and the story about how my Uncle took it off the flyer. |
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I can't say for sure how old the holster is other than I know for a fact it's at least 40 years old. Well, 40 years old would place it only in the 1960s. I am by no means any sort of expert, but I'm betting this holster is a commercial make & not a WW2 vintage make, IMO. Did I mention that I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express once? 
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| I think I'm going to have to lean toward the commercial holster as well. When P08 asked about the markings, that really shed some light. I've never seen military equipment (especially German) that didn't have some markings on it somewhere. It just seems odd to me that either my uncle or my dad would have had a shoulder holster made for the gun. |
| The pattern is correct for WWII era. Shoulder holsters were not standard issue in German military but private purchase from commercial sources. Unlikely there will be an waffenamt stamps on it. There typically was commercial markings of some sort, but they may have faded with age. And it may be a post war repo. |