Leather Holder/Holster for Colt style revolvers

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

Does any body have any 1st or 2nd hand period documentation on the use of a Holder/Holster that attached to the belt to hold a Colt style flask for the 1851/1860 Colt revolvers? If you could point me to original period photos that would be great. Inquiring minds want to know.

Bill

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I'd be interested in that to.
From the research I have done, I have not found any mention or photographical evidence of them.  I believe them to be a fairly recent product.

[Hangtown Frye]

To the best of my knowledge, there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that the Colt-style flasks (other than the big military flasks for the Walker and Dragoon, which have side rings and were carried on a shoulder strap) were carried anywhere but in the pockets or saddle bags (or whatever) of the user.  I've never seen anything approaching the little holster-gizmo's that guy's use to carry the flasks around on their belts.  They're just like the "cylinder pouches"* that some CW Cavalry reenactors use, there is absolutely no documentation for them, but they are handy.

*(Note: I know it's off-topic here, but the Prussian and Austrian Navy's did have a single cylinder pouch attached to the holsters of the Navy Colt's they issued. That's about it as far as documentation for any military use of spare cylinders for military-issue revolving pistols goes.)

Cheers!

Gordon

[St. George]

I've been around the gun collecting world since '63 - and I've never seen one.

During their era - six-round packets of pre-loaded ammunition were widely available.

The rounds were held in little paper-wrapped wooden containers that'd fit nicely into a vest pocket or coat pocket - or into the military-issue belt pouch.

Sure, there are a lot of 'woulda if they coulda' types out there that will claim that they saw 'something' - 'somewhere' - in 'some' publication - so that makes it all right to use - but they can never document anything.

The truth of the matter is that it's likely that the civilian armed with a percussion revolver figured that a round or two would suffice, so they didn't wander about getting ready to reload on the clock.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!