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I am trying to identify the manufacturer of the listed holster. If you look closely, the maker appears in the background to the military markings including the date of 1915 as opposed to the military stamped date of 1914. Is anyone able to assist with its identification?.
With some assistance from another forum (War relics forum) I managed to identify the maker of this holster as 'Rich.Haenel Dresden 1915' so please disregard trying to decipher this for me. I now need to work out its collector value in order to consider selling it.
No expert on Luger holsters but WWI holsters were brown so this one was dyed later for WWII use. No idea what that does to value. Good condition holsters can go from $100-$300 pretty easily. I wonder why they stamped over the manufacturer.
From the research I have done, and I am only an amateur, there were numerous manufacturers of holsters and this was common practise . Please correct me if I am mistaken.
Dying them was common practice, not sure about over stamping the manufacturer with another. That doesn't make sense.
We did the same thing with our holsters. They also were brown through both world wars and then dyed black sometime after WWII. Black ones are dirt cheap because they are not period correct. The brown ones get pretty pricey.
German holsters however are valuable either way. Both wars are sought after with WWII seeming to be even higher priority than WWI. So a WWI holster that saw action in both wars might be worth more to a collector than just a WWI holster. I don't know. I have one of each. The WWI holster I paid $20 for because the gun dealer didn't know what it was. I didn't either until I got it out in the sunlight. Couldn't see the stamp inside but was very clear in natural light. My WWII holster came with the WWI luger I purchased. I just need to get a WWII Luger and I'm all set.
If it's good, reuse it, seems the motto of most militaries. The Italians seemed to take it to the extreme.