Tell me what I found? Tooled leather Western style gun belts

[CaptTripps]

Hey guys, I found these belts at an estate sale today. I paid 20$ per belt. 2 belts for a total of 40$. How did I make out? I am thinking I will sell them. I don;t have use for either one, my .22 pistol holster will not fit the .22 belt. Here are some photos. They are both very nicely made. Both are double layer, bonded leather. The .22 belt has an additional layer of rough side leather inside the belt. The Mexican is vry heavy an stiff and the raw, unfinished side is very pebbly and fine grained looking.There are no makers mark on either one. Hoping someone can give me a realistic, selling price for these. Thanks guys!

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[WestKentucky]

What is the belt size? Anything short will hurt the value a bit, but anything long can be cut back to an appropriate shorter length.

 

[CaptTripps]

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Hey guys, here in the second belt. it is a size 36. The first, belt, the darker colored," Mexican" belt, is size 38.I'd love to keep the Mexican but I would need a new holster for my .22/.





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[aarondhgraham]

Hello CaptTripps:

What you have are generic tooled gun belts,,,
By generic I mean that they were made by the hundreds.

They are certainly hand carved and not machine pressed,,,
But the carving isn't of any special quality.

Picture a Mexican minimum wage worker turning out four or five of these a day.

Aarond

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[CaptTripps]

Aarond thank you for the info. I have heard before of Mexican made holsters and belts, etc. What would you suppose they are worth to someone looking for a gun belt like these? I am only a size 30 waist or else In would keep them. I'm not sure if a competent leathersmith could resize these for me? I have guns that are appropriate for each belt.

 

[Bullseye]

I am only a size 30 waist or else In would keep them.

Yeah, I was a size 30 waist myself. That was many years and many inches ago.
If you stay at 30, bully for you. The smart money was NOT on a size 36 for me.
I did enjoy that for my 20's. Then I drove a truck a couple million miles.
These are Buscadero gun belts.
Designed to have the gun hang low off the hip.
These belts are supposed to ride just above the widest part on the hip, not the waist.
A 36 inch belt might be OK for a 32 inch waist if you know what I mean.
Keep em from drying out. Use PROPER leather care products. I would value them for $75 bucks each, maybe more.

 

[Sunray]

You won't be a size 30 forever. snicker.
"...competent leather smith could resize..." Nope. The carving would be cut and look really sad. It's the holster the firearm fits, not the belt.
I think those are homemade. Look closely at the slot and the stiches. Both not being done by a machine(even Mexico uses sewing machines. Minimum wage or not.).
"...Buscadero..." Means 'Hollywood'. Not many belts only. Low end sets run $70 on Amazon.
You may want to think in terms of trading goods at a gun show.

 

[Varminterror]

You paid about going rate for those. Mexican made gun belts can often be found for $20-25, sometimes marked at $100 and haggled to $50 by sly-wheelers, but they typically don't bring $50 when newly imported. They aren't typically bad, other than usually being the wrong cut for a gunbelt, but they also typically are not good. Kids in boyscout troops or 4H programs often turn out better projects.

With holsters for Colt SAA size revolvers, they would bring more, but what you have are only the belts, so you're not going to bring the $75-100 value some folks might believe they are worth. The belts are barely worth shipping cost most of the time.