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Yesterday I went to different woods and found another toy gun, but this one is a totally different story than the first one which was pretty complete and in good shape for something that was buried for over 50 years.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?91,2014685
This one I probably destroyed myself trying to get it out of ground that was way to frozen to even think about a careful extraction, but I never said I was the brainy type.
By the time I got half of it out of the ground and realized what it was it was too late.
Oh well, I still got all of the pieces which is way more than I usually find in the cap gun department.
A 1958 or so Mattel Fanner 50 full size and very popular gun.
What was more fun than fanning that trigger and hearing those rapid pops?
This was one of the first toys that put Mattel on the map and came out 1 year before the Barbie doll...the most popular toy ever made.
They produced these from 1958 to about 1965, and had many different styles.
This was an early model with a stationary barrel and used cap rolls but over time they evolved to spinning barrels and bullets where you put stick-on caps on the ends and fired small plastic tips off the front of those bullets...something they could never get away with today.
I guess if you hunt in the woods, something I will be doing a lot more of this year, this is exactly the kind of things you should expect to find.
Hopefully, more to come.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?91,2014685
This one I probably destroyed myself trying to get it out of ground that was way to frozen to even think about a careful extraction, but I never said I was the brainy type.
By the time I got half of it out of the ground and realized what it was it was too late.
Oh well, I still got all of the pieces which is way more than I usually find in the cap gun department.
A 1958 or so Mattel Fanner 50 full size and very popular gun.
What was more fun than fanning that trigger and hearing those rapid pops?
This was one of the first toys that put Mattel on the map and came out 1 year before the Barbie doll...the most popular toy ever made.
They produced these from 1958 to about 1965, and had many different styles.
This was an early model with a stationary barrel and used cap rolls but over time they evolved to spinning barrels and bullets where you put stick-on caps on the ends and fired small plastic tips off the front of those bullets...something they could never get away with today.
I guess if you hunt in the woods, something I will be doing a lot more of this year, this is exactly the kind of things you should expect to find.
Hopefully, more to come.