Completing Your Display: A Practical Accessories Guide

A well chosen piece is genuinely the main event. Accessories are what turn it into a considered display rather than an object sitting alone on a shelf.

Stands And Brackets, First

Work this out before anything else. A stand or bracket does more to elevate how a piece reads than almost any other single addition, and it affects how everything else around it gets arranged, so it's worth choosing before you start layering on smaller items. Our Display Stand and Brackets range covers options suited to both pistols and longer rifles.

Holsters Add Context

A holster tells part of the story of how a piece was actually carried. A Western-era revolver displayed with a period-appropriate holster reads as considerably more complete than the same piece sitting on its own. It's a small addition with an outsized effect on how the whole display gets read at a glance.

Bullets, For Visual Completeness

A few loose cartridges, purely decorative, add detail that helps a piece look ready for use rather than isolated. Works particularly well for Civil War and Wild West displays, where visible ammunition is part of the expected look.

Badges, For Specificity

Building toward a specific role, a lawman, a particular unit, a historical figure? A well chosen badge adds a layer the firearm alone can't provide. This is especially effective for Wild West and law enforcement themed displays.

Keychains, For The Casual End

Smaller and more casual than everything above, but a genuinely good way to extend a piece's presence beyond the display case, or as a small, low-cost gift alongside a larger purchase for someone just starting out.

Building A Set, Not A Pile

The mistake worth avoiding is treating accessories as a random add-on cart rather than part of the actual plan. A stand matched to a piece's era, a period-appropriate holster instead of a generic one, and a bit of restraint in how many smaller items you layer in together, all of it contributes more to a considered result than adding everything available at once.

Our Bullets, Accessories and Holsters collection covers everything above in one place. Browse it with a specific piece already in mind. Pairing accessories with pieces from our Western collection or Guns of Ned Kelly range tends to produce the most coherent result.

None of this needs to happen all at once either. A display can genuinely start with just the piece itself and grow into something more considered over months, a stand added first, a holster picked up once you've found the right period match, a badge or a few cartridges layered in later once you know exactly what the display is actually telling. Treating accessories as an ongoing part of building a collection, rather than a single shopping trip to complete before you're allowed to call it finished, tends to produce a better result anyway, since it gives you time to find pieces that genuinely fit rather than whatever happened to be available on the day.