Open top holster with special nickel coated spring trigger catch for 4-inch barrel, patented Oct. 13, 1914.

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A45 9 Luger open top holster, patented Oct. 13, 1914, with special nickel coated spring trigger catch for 4¾-inch barrel

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A45 open top holster, Thomas Hoopes, with special nickel coated spring trigger catch for 4-inch barrel.

Thomas Temple Hoopes Ph.D. 1898-1981
Hoopes Prize – Description
From the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, Harvard has received a fund from which to grant annual awards to undergraduates on the basis of outstanding scholarly work or research. Mr. Hoopes was Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Afterwards from 1936 to 1964 he was the curator of the St Louis City Art Museum. He was an expert on firearms from the crossbow of the sixteenth century to modern handguns and wrote widely in the field.

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Unique, rare style Audley holster for Colt M1911 pistol offered through the 1915 H & D Folsom Arms Co. catalogue No. 13

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