Vintage 1950 ' S Hubley " Cowboy " 45cal Cap Guns & Holster Belt Set Western Toy
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Vintage Hubley 1950'S "Cowboy" Cap guns holster set Western. Condition is "Used" in very good condition with a few flaws in the holster, the first is one missing toy bullet holder and second cracked/ missing single toy bullet holder broken off(shown clearly in pictures). The guns look and work great except there is a small crack/ missing fragment on the bottom of the hand bezels(also shown clearly in pictures), hardly noticeable under normal display but they are there. ...; Very nice replica set, made by Hubley in Lancaster PA. Spring releases and triggers on both guns work great. Cylinder rotates on each cap gun as it should. These are absolutely awesome replica cap guns. I did not load caps and test but everything appears to work and move as it should. Please keep in mind the age of these beauties and if you have specific questions, please ask. I try to be as clear and accurate in my descriptions as possible. Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.
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?This replica gun contains the colored markings required by law, including a permanently attached orange plug.?
FROM THE WEBBack when I was a kid, cap guns ran the gamut from the tiniest derringers to pirate pistols, holster-sized cowboy six-guns and cops-and-robbers-style slab-sided semi-auto-type pistols, up to lever-action rifles and even tommy guns and ray guns! Despite the vast array of cap guns available, it was the “Peacemaker-styled” Western six-shooter that was the pièce de résistance. Virtually every toy manufacturer offered one or more cowboy cap pistol.Cap guns first appeared in the mid-1860s, following the end of the Civil War, when some firearms companies began making toy guns to help compensate for the lost military contracts of the war years. However, it was the movies and television of the 1940s through the 1960s that ushered in the Golden Age of cap guns. Silver screen cowboys Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gene Autry and John Wayne, along with fictional range riders like the Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy, the Cisco Kid and Marshal Matt Dillon, stirred our imaginations. Toy companies like Mattel, Hubley, Halco, Nichols—even Britain’s Lone Star Toys—kept us properly armed so we could tame our neighborhood frontiers. Some cap guns bore the names of our cowboy heroes and heroines, like Richard Boone’s “Paladin” or Gail Davis’ “Annie Oakley, ” while others had Western monikers like the Texan, Mustang, Pioneer, Colt 45 or Stallion 45.Arguably the most popular and best-remembered cap guns were Mattel’s Fanner-50 series, first introduced in its Fall 1957 catalog. Mattel’s young gunslinger, “Matty Mattel, ” portrayed by Paul Lars Anderson, appeared in print ads, TV commercials and later in Western films and was undoubtedly the envy of every youngster of that era!These die-cast metal cap guns were so popular in those bygone days that during one year in the early 1950s, the Hubley Toy Company stated in February of that year, they had sold out all the cap pistols they could produce until the following year! Another, Nichols Industries, claimed it was producing one of its toy derringers every two seconds and could only fill about two thirds of its orders!Arguably the most popular and best remembered by anyone who grew up blazing away with those perforated rolls of paper ammo was Mattel’s Fanner-50 series (the 50 designation is for the 50-shot rolls of paper caps). The series was introduced in 1957 by Mattel, a little after my own cap gun totin’ years, although my youngest brother had several. There were many different Fanner-50s, some with revolving cylinders, although most did not have that added authentic feature. Fanner-50s lasted until around 1975, coinciding with the cancellation of the last TV Western, Gunsmoke, and by the mid-1980s, most of the toy cap gun companies had either ceased toy gun production, or were gone.
Ebay Required Disclaimers for this vintage 1950's toy cap gun
""This listing complies with eBay?s air gun guidelines found here and I will only sell and ship air guns to buyers in jurisdictions where permitted by applicable laws -http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/firearms-weapons-knives?"
?This replica gun contains the colored markings required by law, including a permanently attached orange plug.?
FROM THE WEBBack when I was a kid, cap guns ran the gamut from the tiniest derringers to pirate pistols, holster-sized cowboy six-guns and cops-and-robbers-style slab-sided semi-auto-type pistols, up to lever-action rifles and even tommy guns and ray guns! Despite the vast array of cap guns available, it was the “Peacemaker-styled” Western six-shooter that was the pièce de résistance. Virtually every toy manufacturer offered one or more cowboy cap pistol.Cap guns first appeared in the mid-1860s, following the end of the Civil War, when some firearms companies began making toy guns to help compensate for the lost military contracts of the war years. However, it was the movies and television of the 1940s through the 1960s that ushered in the Golden Age of cap guns. Silver screen cowboys Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gene Autry and John Wayne, along with fictional range riders like the Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy, the Cisco Kid and Marshal Matt Dillon, stirred our imaginations. Toy companies like Mattel, Hubley, Halco, Nichols—even Britain’s Lone Star Toys—kept us properly armed so we could tame our neighborhood frontiers. Some cap guns bore the names of our cowboy heroes and heroines, like Richard Boone’s “Paladin” or Gail Davis’ “Annie Oakley, ” while others had Western monikers like the Texan, Mustang, Pioneer, Colt 45 or Stallion 45.Arguably the most popular and best-remembered cap guns were Mattel’s Fanner-50 series, first introduced in its Fall 1957 catalog. Mattel’s young gunslinger, “Matty Mattel, ” portrayed by Paul Lars Anderson, appeared in print ads, TV commercials and later in Western films and was undoubtedly the envy of every youngster of that era!These die-cast metal cap guns were so popular in those bygone days that during one year in the early 1950s, the Hubley Toy Company stated in February of that year, they had sold out all the cap pistols they could produce until the following year! Another, Nichols Industries, claimed it was producing one of its toy derringers every two seconds and could only fill about two thirds of its orders!Arguably the most popular and best remembered by anyone who grew up blazing away with those perforated rolls of paper ammo was Mattel’s Fanner-50 series (the 50 designation is for the 50-shot rolls of paper caps). The series was introduced in 1957 by Mattel, a little after my own cap gun totin’ years, although my youngest brother had several. There were many different Fanner-50s, some with revolving cylinders, although most did not have that added authentic feature. Fanner-50s lasted until around 1975, coinciding with the cancellation of the last TV Western, Gunsmoke, and by the mid-1980s, most of the toy cap gun companies had either ceased toy gun production, or were gone.
