Antique Brown

3” Money belt

“No Noose Neal” border

Old California slim jim. This holster is a reproduction of one found in “Packing Iron”. It is styled with contoured (early style) pouch and bears a high cut on the cylinder. It is rather high in ride and has a double (front and rear) trigger recurve as well as a modest recurve at the front of the cylinder. It has a toe plug. This is a period-correct holster in all respects and would have been typical of holsters built from the late 1840’s to the 1870’s.

Old California carving pattern with repeating 9’s border

Antique Brown (with natural webbing)

Tapered “Mills” Belt. The famous military Mills Belt was also extremely popular among the civilian population. It was lightweight, strong and comfortable. There were a number of civilian makers (most notably Winchester Firearms) who carried web belts for non-military customers. This is our version of the shotgun belt in a tapered billet style.

Chain & 4-point star

Black Mountain Slim Jim. This is a period correct slim jim holster with a plugged toe for the periods post 1870 era. The gun is deeply encased and protected by the high pouch walls.

Chain & 4-point Star

Dark Mahogany

Soft Taper: a soft and conforming belt made for comfort and close fit.

Old California with Four Point Star & Chain Borders

Meanea Halfbreed: A halfbreed version of the classic Meanea skirted holster with plugged toe.

Old California with Four Point Star & Chain border

The holster was dropped so the grip top was in line with the belt top facilitating an easier draw. The belt loop is modified to sit tight on the belt. Cigar band style loop. Knife sheath to match.

Black with tan lace

Soft Taper

No Noose Neal Border with hand carved 1890’s Rose billets

Belt is fully whiplaced with tan kangaroo lace.

Modified SC Gallup. Our period-correct SC Gallup holster has straight-cut loops. This one has contoured loops but is otherwise identical in shape to the one made in the Gallatin shop.

Colorado Rose

This holster is fully whiplaced with tan kangaroo lace. There is a small “gambler” concho on the top loop.

Black

Soft Taper: a soft and conforming belt made for comfort and close fit.

1890’s Rose with Sunset borders

This 2 ½” belt was made with 10 individual shotgun loops with 5 cartridge loops to each side. The buckle is a dressy ranger-style tip set.

Cat Ballou: This is a variation on the theme of the Duke holster, cut slightly lower on the cylinder & the cylinder recurve and with an open, squared toe.

1890’s Rose Carving with Sunset border. This delicate floral is rendered in the California style of the 1890’s.

The holster is flaired slightly at the cylinder and has a custom-shaped cigar band-style loop with a diamond concho. It has been raked 10 degrees muzzle forward & rides low to facilitate drawing.

British Tan with black background and black lace

Taper. Belt Pattern: Elko Rose. This is a modern tooling pattern, more appropriate for the latter half of the 20th century than the 19th.

This belt is full double loop laced and fully buckstitched. The buckle is a custom sterling piece which we had specially fabricated for our customer.

Slim Jim. This holster retains the high cut over the cylinder and the deep front trigger recurve characteristics of our Old California slim jim. However, it is markedly different in that the pouch has the straighter, more amorphous shape characteristic of later period slim jims. The pouch on this one is extremely deep to retain the pistol without need of a hammer loop while horseback.

Elko Rose

The holster has been dropped so that the bottom of the grip frame is level with the top of the belt.

British Tan with black background, Havana cartridge loops and Havana-colored lace

Double Drop Straightback Buscadero. This belt is a buscadero-style doubled drop loop rig. The back of the belt is cut straight to fit smoothly across the back with angled fronts for a close fit over the hips.

Spirit of Buck Jones. The original Buck Jones belt was a deeply-oiled natural leather, background dyed, with natural calfskin lace and cartridge loops.. It did NOT have shotgun loops over the holsters .Because of these shotgun loops, the carved design has been modified to fit the existing space. Loop color and lace color were altered to suit the darker overall British Tan color scheme.

The appointments on this belt are all-sterling replicas of the original (by AK Goldsmiths). The belt is full double loop laced and, by customer specification, is equipped with .38 caliber loops across the back and 4 doubled shotgun shell loops over each holster.

Modified Buck Jones. The original Buck Jones holster has the billet which form the loop pass through the holster pouch to expose all lacing. We have eliminated this for purposes of unencumbered holstering of the pistol.

Modified Buck Jones: The original holsters displayed the Buck Jones brand in the toe of the pouch. We have substituted appropriate floral elements at the customer’s request.

The solid sterling conchos which appear on the pouches are as close to the originals as we could find. The sterling silver buckles are reproductions of the originals (without diamond shields) by AK Goldsmiths.

Brown

1950’s Buscadero: The belt most remembered from 1950’s and ‘60’s TV westerns, it is designed with a deep drop at the hip for a lightning fast draw.

Customer requested no cartridge loops.

Classic Quick Draw: The holster most remembered from the 1950’s & ‘60’s TV westerns, this is designed for a speed draw. Dropped low & cut low on the cylinder, with or without a hard, reinforcing liner, it allows the cylinder to spin freely in the holster. The toe is open.

Screw post lock down at belt slot & tie down

Dark Mahogany

Ranger

El Paso Border

Collins Brothers: this is a traditional Cheyenne holster with toe plug & a loop-locking flair and straight Mexican loops. It is built high over the cylinder and hammer and has the traditional high ride of late 19th century rigs.

El Paso Border

Dark Brown background dye on Golden Oak foreground

Ranger

“Colorado” floral carving pattern

Cripple Creek Bob. This somewhat fanciful holster was designed as a transitional holster to bridge the eras between the time of toe plugs and the time of stitched-through toes. Old styles feature a high cut on the cylinder, deep front and trigger recurves and toe plugs. The toe plug is unusual being slightly rounded at the main seam indicating a move towards more “modern” lines. The loop is separate from the skirt definitely indicating a trend toward the modern. Full floral carving also became extremely popular at this time as border stamping began to fall out of favor.

“Colorado” floral carving pattern.

Sterling plated concho on large loop.