I seem to recall ???

[Major 2]

Last night just before dozing off... I was laying there thinking...

I recalled when I was a kid there was a Toy manufacturer that made an Open top model.
( I do know Revell made a Plastic Kit model of the 1860 Army )
I'm thinking this was a metal cap firing revolver, does anyone recall this toy ?

I think it came out before the Fanner Fifty by Mattel.
That would be circa 1956 and no self-respecting young cowboy would be without Mattel's "Fanner fifty" cap pistol with it's
plastic ivory grips and a brown plastic leather holster.
Following the FF were the Shoot'n' Six fired 6 plastic bullets. I had a pair of those too...

I also seem to recall Parnell Roberts Adam on "Bonanza" carried a Richard's Conversion in the early episodes.
In fact , if memory serves Paw & Hose carried Remington's and Little Joe had a 51 Navy.
Perhaps, the Show gave rise to that Open-Top Cap pistol.
It was never as popular as the Fanner Fifty, nor was the Paladin  " Have Gun Will Travel " Gun set w/real wood grips and quite good black leather holster.

Anyway , I dozed off remembering the old day's of Toy Replica's not he PC red muzzled junk of today...

[Major 2]

Well here she is...
Made by Hubley

[Major 2]

Marx offered these 51 Navies

[gw]

I actually had one of these when I was a kid. Had a holster/ belt for it to but I can't remember if it came with the gun or not. What became of it I'll never know, I've been tempted a few times over the years by ones I've seen for sale. I aways thought it was a '60 conversion of sorts, heck when I was a kid it was the coolest gun I had period. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[Major 2]

No problem I'm enjoying the search

while speaking of conversions here is a famous one:



One a side note Steve McQueen wanted to make " The Magnificent Seven "
but his TV series contract would not let him....
McQueen used sick leave ( recovering from a car crash ) to star in arguably one of the best westerns ever.

[Major 2]

Aside from the OT Hubley's

Mattel was a kids best friend in the fifties

The Shooting Six



And the action Belt Buckle





I had both 

They were,  as the Ad read....Spitt'n' image

[Ozark Tracker]

Boy, those pictures bring back a lot of memories.  I can remember taking my fanner 50's to school, they had us hang them in the coat room but at recess we were free to take them out on the play ground and gun down anybody we wanted. 

just don't let a cap go off inside the school house.  course they let us carry knives to school back then too.

[Major 2]

Hubley's  45


Uberti's Tiffany Model



AH ! The fifties when every backyard was the Old West....
Every night had a western on TV,  some in new fangled Living Color!

[Black River Smith]

My cousin had one of the belt buckle derringers.  I never had the FF or anyother better pistols just the standard capguns.  I did have a Rifleman's Rifle.  It had the little sliding finger on the lever to activate the trigger.

[Major 2]

Recall it well BR Smith 

It had a little angle piece attached to the lever when flipped forward it cought the trigger a fired the rifle.

There were a lot of cool guns in that era

Mattel had a Rolling block Remington carbine 





Hubley also made a Remington 1858 Army Pistol


And Daisy  had the Spitt'n Image 94 Winchester

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Well here's my Fanner on my loading room wall

[Four-Eyed Buck]

And the belt buckle derringer. Still need the Winchester.............

[Black River Smith]

Four-Eye, you are a luck man.

Yes Major that was the one I was thinking of.  Ah the good days of the late 50's early 60's WB or Desilo Cowboy series.

I would have to say I went through 3 pair of cap guns before graduating to the BB gun.  I had 'one' Spittin-Image through my BB gun years. I can't imagine just how many tubes of Daisy BB's went through that rifle.  My parents yard could be considered a copper mine. When it did finally break the next thing I had was a Crosman CO2 Peacemaker 22.  I owned that up till about '85.  The seals were gone and back then it cost too much to repair or so I was told.  I still wish I had that pistol.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Here's a site for a guy who repairs the BB type guns..........www.daisyrepair.com/

[Major 2]

I'd buy one of the Buckels , if I ever find one again.....
I wonder what ever happed to mine....?