Interesting, but what is the connection to a Winchester rifle? I am a bit confused, but that is my natural state!
It has still got some leather attached to the back very small piece, I am going to keep researching it, just more than a coincidence that I put in the number 1443 and it came up with the date 1894
anyway I am pursuing the Winchester idea, this is possibly off "the rifle sling"....HH....Bonz