Remember that my field of study focuses on the innovation in the 20th century, so here I show you only gunleather of famous Rangers early that century. Of these let's acknowledge that Capt Hughes' El Paso Saddlery holster is the oldest because that company operated only in the last decade of the 19th century, then closed and was supplanted by Shelton-Payne Arms, an El Paso competitor. Look carefully/awarely and you'll see the supplanting of the Mexican Loop, aka Olive holsters, with their Sunday scabbards aka The Brill then by the Threepersons and the Donihoo late in the 20th:
To read more about it all in my book titled "Holstory -- Gunleather of the Twentieth Century
-- the Second Edition", click on the new link at top of page.
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