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Themaker of old west boots9/6/2023 We have been producing this boot for six or seven years. For your comfort, we lined the boot with leather from top to toe. We used stitching because we haven’t found a machine and no craftsman today can duplicate the work of a 1860s pegging machine. They were machine pegged, nine pegs to the inch. We bought the originals when the museum broke up. Look at the original on the right in the picture and the Fugawee model on the left. In that year it was placed on a mannequin of the Drummer Boy of Shiloh and so was preserved in a museum exhibit until 1968. We sent the master bootmaker an actual, unworn original model 1859 Ankle Boot made in 1865. Without it, the boots tend to wrinkle in the front and cause blisters on the instep. I don’t think that any other two-piece CW boot made in America has an accurate molded shape. These fine boots are made to Fugawee’s specifications by one of the few bootmakers in the world that still produces the antique molded front piece. Also see: Dress regulations throughout the period … mention only the “ankle boot” and the “Jefferson boot.” Both types were prescribed for officers and the mounted service….It can be concluded that the ankle boot was a medium height riding boot without lacing and otherwise called a ‘half boot.’ “Since the mounted man’s boot (if he wore such instead of bootees) were, by regulation, covered by his trousers………they must have been of the Wellington pattern.”įrom: American Military Equipage 1851-1872 The Company of Military Historians-Providence, R.I…… not rated $159.49 Select optionsĬivil War Artillery Boots Sometimes called Ankle Boots. With a tab on the back for ease of entry, it has a smooth black leather toe, two elastic gussets one either side and a stacked heel. But otherwise, and contrary to movie myth, these Mexican Loop holsters that were usually worn high on the hip into the 20th century were not fast-draw holsters, and the so-called Hollywood fast-draw holsters of the 1950s movie boom simply did not exist in the 1800s and that is why we created a separate category for what we call Fast Draw Holsters or in some cases Hollywood Fast Draw Holsters.The Congressgaitor is more of an ankle boot. Yes, some individuals probably created their own fast-draw holsters during this time, and perhaps some even tied down their holsters with a rawhide thong around their thighs so that the holster wouldn’t ride up the leg on a fast draw. But over the years, the top side of the holster was cut down further and further until a.com ll of the handle of the gun and part of the trigger guard were exposed so that the gun could be gripped faster and pulled from the holster faster. And the fold at the top of the holster formed a loop for a belt to go through, so that the holster hung on the belt, not below it.Īt first, the top of the outer side of the Mexican Loop holster was so high that it was nothing more than a pocket for the pistol to fall into. The other half of the leather was folded down behind the full length of the pouch to make the “skirt.” From two to six slits were then cut horizontally through the middle of this skirt, forming one, two or three straps that the pouch was inserted down through to form the finished holster. It was cut out of one piece of leather, shaped so that one half of the leather folded over like a sandwich, with the open bottom edge and the contoured open side edges stitched closed to form the pouch for the gun. It is uncertain who first thought up the idea of what became the traditional“cowboy” holster, commonly referred to as the Mexican Loop or El Paso Loop holster. also created because of our belief in maintaining the historical accuracy of Gun Holsters and Gun Leather throughout the products development.
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