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This article is dedicated to said holster.
This model was built for the 1911 or the Ballester Molina, from Argentina. And it's pretty unique.
Ballester Molina
Since I haven't seem any of the country's milsurp before I was a little surprised at the green leather.
But it seems fitting to think of a South American country using green web gear.
Argentina has a mix of mountains, farmland with cattle prairie and jungle, so it seems like a win-win for the environment and resources of the time; this kit is pretty old, possibly from the WW2 era or earlier.
Further searches revealed green leather slings for their Mauser rifles and ammo pouches to match. Brown leather seems more rare actually.
This holster was manufactured with a dual magazine pouch above the pistol, but I have seen stand alone double mag pouches as well as separate pistol holsters, also in green leather, for sale online.
Because of the top/bottom setup, the pistol hangs a bit lower on the hip-almost on the side of the leg. This is a similar a similar setup to the modern Bianchi web belt drop down extender for the M9/1911 holster.
There is even two small d rings on the back of the pistol holster to accommodate a leather strap that would secure the holster to your leg, though my example did not come with said leather strap.
All in all I am happy with this unique kit and the price was very reasonable. I haven't attempted to clean up the leather at all in these photos, and it goes with my weathered 1911 nicely.
Shipping did take a while, but that isn't too bad considering this hobby, the wait builds up and imagination, once the item is in the collectors hands that feeling of interest in the unknown is appeased and its time to move on to the next vintage surplus collectible...
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