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Title: Holster for a M1902 Colt "Alaskan"
Post by: Tascosa Joe on July 13, 2024, 04:48:28 PM
What is the correct holster for the M1902 Colt?  It is the 1878 with the large trigger guard box.
Title: Re: Holster for a M1902 Colt
Post by: Major 2 on July 13, 2024, 05:30:43 PM
check this one out

https://www.ima-usa.com/products/original-u-s-wwi-colt-m1892-s-w-m1902-revolver-holster-by-rock-island-arsenal-dated-1910-cavalry-draw
Title: Re: Holster for a M1902 Colt
Post by: Niederlander on July 14, 2024, 09:02:47 PM
I believe What Price Glory has one like that, or at least did.
Title: Re: Holster for a M1902 Colt
Post by: Major 2 on July 15, 2024, 07:19:51 AM
Sarco lists them too

https://www.sarcoinc.com/colt-1892-s-w-1902-38-revolver-holster-right-hip-right-draw/

BTW...should you buy one of the replicas and that new finish is not what you want for your guns or your impression...  :-\
The late Chuck Burrow's tutored me in his aging leather processes

Here is my M1917 holster lightly aged following Chuck's lead.
Title: Re: Holster for a M1902 Colt
Post by: Tascosa Joe on July 15, 2024, 11:20:49 AM
The problem with the M1902 Colt is it is much larger than the other two.  It is the Colt 1878, with the large trigger guard built for use in the Philippines, but had the misnomer hung on it of "Alaskan".   
Title: Re: Holster for a M1902 Colt "Alaskan"
Post by: St. George on July 15, 2024, 03:45:43 PM
The Model 1902 used a modified Model 1885 - the variant that housed both the Colt and Schofield - Manila saddlers did the work.

The holsters pictured are for the .38 Colt DA.

Scouts Out!
Title: Re: Holster for a M1902 Colt "Alaskan"
Post by: Major 2 on July 15, 2024, 04:32:54 PM
I won't argue,   however here is a photo
Title: Re: Holster for a M1902 Colt "Alaskan"
Post by: Coffinmaker on July 16, 2024, 07:38:45 AM

:) AHEM !! ;)

I don't espouse to be a great collector of Holsters..  Or a collector of anything, for that matter.  However, the holster and belt as shown aside, I could really really wrap my hand around that DA Colt You Betcha.  (Actually prefer TWO, shooting gunfighter dontcha know!!)
Title: Re: Holster for a M1902 Colt "Alaskan"
Post by: Major 2 on July 16, 2024, 10:06:32 AM
another  :)
Title: Re: Holster for a M1902 Colt "Alaskan"
Post by: Professor Marvel on July 17, 2024, 08:32:01 PM
Is that a two finger trigger and guard?
Title: Re: Holster for a M1902 Colt "Alaskan"
Post by: mtmarfield on July 17, 2024, 11:28:54 PM
      Greetings, Major 2...!

   I've been looking for a photo of THIS holster for some time...! THANKS! It just so happens that about twenty years ago, a Colt's 1902
followed me home, one of the Bannerman's Surplus revolvers, I'm certain. Between then, and my acquisition, it has received what I will
call a "$10 Buffing-Wheel Reblue Special". Dad, knowing me all too well, suggested that I load up a few boxes of BP .45 Colt cartridges,
and, "...carry some of that reblue off...!" I did shoot it, but never 'carried' it, for lack of an appropriate holster.
   Perhaps, I can use this photo for a pattern...

                     M.T.M.
                   7-17-24
Title: Re: Holster for a M1902 Colt "Alaskan"
Post by: Major 2 on July 17, 2024, 11:42:15 PM
Happy to oblige
Title: Re: Holster for a M1902 Colt "Alaskan"
Post by: cwiseman on July 18, 2024, 11:17:20 AM
Major 2, could yo fill me in on the leather aging process? The end result is a night and day difference. Looks amazing?
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