British Flare Pistol Holster

[Aragorn243]

eBay pickup, seems in decent shape, I thought most of these would be canvas but leather seems to be common.

Just need the blasted grips. Starting to look like I may need to make a set out of wood. can't say I'm looking forward to that.

[Flying10uk]

but leather seems to be common.

Because at the time there were a lot of companies in the UK that worked in leather and were equipped to work in leather.

[Peter Laidler]

The grips for those signal pistols wrapped around the metal butt part, in two halves. I wish you'd have mentioned it a couple of years ago. They were still in use and we had plenty of grips. But the little mini-flare replaced them slowly until the 1" signmal cartridges ran out and they were all withdrawn........leaving the Armourers shops with plenty of spares!

I wonder of Skippy....., Skiprat is reading this thread. Are you there Skippy?

[Aragorn243]

I've only had the flare pistol since last fall I think. I got it at the auction from hell when I got my French M1935 pistol and Patton Sword. That was a costly day.