Dutch Navy Holster...

[Pete Ebbink]

...Just recently posted on Joe Salter's site :

http://www.joesalter.com/

See the "Luger" section - Details for Item # 1753

Looks like it sold, as of 9-25-04...

[ken d]

Pete
I am amazed you find all these sites, Do you know what the holster sold for?

Ken D

[Pete Ebbink]

Hi Ken,

I think the asking price was either $ 650 or $ 675...I hope a LF member bought this one...if so, maybe a rig photo will be posted in the near future...(hint, hint...)

p.s. Finding these sites is not so difficult...The Simpson LTD site had Joe Salter's site in their Links section.

The trick is to watch them long enough to see a "pattern" to when and how-often they update their sites and to be logged on shortly after a routine inventory update...now my secret is out...

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

[Ron Wood]

I missed it by about 45 minutes...darn.

[Pete Ebbink]

Hey Ron,

What's an Imperial grip-man like you having interest in a Dutch Navy Luger w/out a grip safety...? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

If I had known it was on your buy-list, I would have emailed ya first...sorry about that...

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

[ken d]

Thanks pete:
Allways interested in Dutch holsters. Hard to fnd, but I keep trying.

Regards Ken D

[Ron Wood]

Pete,

Nothing to be sorry about. I am not overly dismayed at missing out on this holster. I do not have a Dutch Navy, but it is conceivable that in a weak moment I might be temped to acquire a nice example for the right (cheap!) price to add to my Dutch collection. It would fit in with acquiring early contract Lugers, my secondary criteria for collecting. My Dutch collection currently consists of an M11 Second Contract (August 1912) with the Crown/W, â??Wilhelminaâ?�, proof on the right side, a Third Contract (December 1913) with the Crown/W proof on the left side, a KOL (yes, I finally replaced the one I sold you!), and a Vickers. I also have a rather nice KNIL holster with proper cleaning rod. I was interested in the Navy holster since it is a particularly nice example of a Dutch holster, and I might have one day paired it up with a Dutch Navy Luger.

A neat aside note: My Second Contract has exactly the same serial number, 1714, as the Dutch Navy shown in Martens & deVries on page 145, having a DWM toggle but delivered by Mauser! That would be a nifty Dutch Navy to add to my collection (fat chance!).