My Civil War leather and MORE.

[drm3m]

https://i.postimg.cc/Hx5x363B/7-Pattern-1863-E-###lord-manufactured-holster.jpg

 

[drm3m]

Only a little bit of leather here.

 

[drm3m]

NOT MUCH LEATHER HERE.



Cartridges and tools

1st Row
-.45-70 centerfire Government (Trapdoor) cartridge.
-.50-70 centerfire cartridge (Sharps conversion carbine)
-.42 caliber cup primed Plant cartridge
-32 long cartridge for the No.2 Smith & Wesson revolver
-41 Derringer (short)

2nd Row
- 56-56 Spencer
- 56-50 Spencer
- 56-46 Spencer
- 56-52 Spencer (I think?)
-?
-?

3rd Row
-.58 caliber centerfire cartridge
-.52 caliber linen Sharps cartridge
-.50 caliber Smith Carbine cartridge
-.36 caliber Colt skin cartridge
-.44 caliber Colt cartridge

4th Row
-.577 Enfield cartridge
-.58 caliber cartridge
-.58 caliber William’s cleaner cartridge
-.58 caliber cartridge
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5th Row
-U.S. Model 1863 Combination Tool
-Springfield Armory Conversion of 1863 Combination Tool to Spencer rifle and carbine tool.
-U.S. Model 1879 Combination Tool

6th Row
-U.S. Model 1841 rifle /1842 musket combination tools
-Second variation of the tool above.
-.36 caliber paper cartridge (I think?)

7th Row
-.44 caliber Colt bullet mold
-.36 caliber Colt bullet mold

8th Row
-.31 caliber Colt bullet mold.
-nipple wrench for a Colt London cased .31 caliber pocket revolver

9th Row
Various dug bullets.

Item 10
-Cylinder for a New Model Remington Army Revolver.

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Cartridges from left to right.

-.577 Enfield cartridge
-.58 caliber cartridge
-.58 caliber William’s cleaner cartridge
-.58 caliber cartridge
-.54 caliber Mississippi rifle (Model 1841) cartridge
-.52 caliber linen Sharps cartridge
-.50 caliber Smith Carbine cartridge
-.36 caliber Colt skin cartridge
-.44 caliber Colt cartridge
-.36 caliber cartridge still in its paper wrapper (I think)

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[drm3m]

VARIOUS GUNS----NOT MUCH LEATHER.

 

[Mike Webb]

Wow! Great collection. Really nice condition on the leather. That stuff fares much worse with age than steel and walnut.

 

[drm3m]

Thanks Mike.

I got my exposure to leather when I was collecting WWII holsters for my pistols. (They are mostly gone now.)

A few examples.

Two 1943 dated soft shell and a 1944 dated Hard Shell P.38 holsters







This holster is still for sale at Collector's Guild in N.B. for $329 USD.

 

[Mike Webb]

They are VERY nice and hard stuff to find. If Justin gets his way we may all be collecting leather holsters.

 

[drm3m]

I STILL HAVE THIS RIG.



This is an interesting holster.

 

[drm3m]

One more piece of U.S. leather----from a different War.

 

[drm3m]

NOT Black Powder Cartridges!

These came with the pistol when I purchased it from the son of the American vet that flew with the RAF out of Montreal.









On March 27 2004 when I bought the Colt I also purchased a U.S. Model 1884 Springfield Trapdoor Rifle which in September 2017 I traded for a P56
Enfield Carbine.





THE VET --GILBERT SHEPPARD TOBIN DIED ON AUGUST 17 1977.
HIS SON DIED ON DECEMBER 31 2016. (I bought the guns from him.)

 

[Mike Webb]

I have a mag full of 45 acp hardball in a glass jar here marked Frankford Arsenal 18
Pretty old stuff.