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People all over the world are collecting Cap Guns
and finding out that their collections are growing more valuable as others join
in the hobby. We certainly encourage you to send in photos of your collections
or part of your collection. This page might take awhile to load on your
browser, as the photos will tend to be a little big. If you want to sent your
photos for your page/s, then remember that my e-mail address is at the bottom
of nearly every page.
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Folks, I may as
well go ahead and show one of the best. If you will click on the above
collection photo belonging to Rich Hall, you will be led to the "Richsonian
Institute," as Troy Greenwood calls it. Rich has one of the finest Cap Gun
collections in the Milky Way Galaxy or anywhere else.
Oh, and I might
mention, Rich is one of our
advertisers!
You
may as well go for the gold. This may not look like a lot of money to you
beginners, but IT IS A LOT. There is (clockwise) a Stallion 45 MK-II G-45, a
Gold Pinto in the rare turquoise belt clip, a gold-plated Spit-Fire and another
Gold Pinto. The stock number for the Pinto is G-71. You will notice that the
Pintos have the fancy Circle "N" in the grips, whereas the Paints that are also
sometimes gold-plated don't. Theirs is a standard metal Circle "N." The Pinto
box is worth quite a bit. The Sheriff Texas Ranger badge is 24KT gold plated
with blue rhinestones. Real G-45's, by the way, have the most beautiful
cloudlike swirly grips. I ought to know, as I have one. Photo thanks to Brian
Roeder.
How's this for
a collection. These two gentlemen are Gary Davis and Tom Wallace and they are
the guys who wrote the swell article in The American Rifleman for the NRA in
July of 1989. I have about 3 of those issues and if I ever see them, I'll
probably buy them supper out of gratitude for all of the nice things they said
about Nichols Industries and my Uncle Talley.
Photo by
Gregory Pries
How's this for a nice
Cheyenne display? If only the donor will let me know, I'll give them a credit,
but it is one of those where somebody submitted it to me and I didn't get a
chance to put it up for a long time and then couldn't find the donor!
Sorry!
This is an especially
nice job of mounting for a small collection. I wish I could take the credit,
but it's from another Mike—Mike Seale. The board really has a frame, but I
used this photo instead, as it was closer up and shows off the faux alligator
backing well. Thanks Mike!
I made this photo
smaller HOPING that you would CLICK ON IT and see a larger photo. This is a
particularly nice Nichols collection from Dick Presley! Thanks
buddy!
Well..........top this one! I couldn't couldn't stand it; I had
to put it on this page. I couldn't figure out where to put it, as 3 guns barely
makes a collection, but I love Cockatoos sooooo much!!! Folks, you have no idea
how expensive these particular Cockatoos are. They are Leadbeaters Cockatoos,
or Major Mitchell's Cockatoos. This photo was taken by a NicholsCapGuns.com fan
named Steve Sheard from Australia. I guess he did it just to hurt me where it
hurts the most: (1) I don't own 3 Stallion 45 MK-II's and (2) I have never
owned a Leadbeaters Cockatoo—even though I have owned other types, having
owned a pet store for 20 years. Ouch, ouch, OUCH!!! Steve: I'll trade you 6
Stallions for one Cockatoo, okay? Fair enough? (These Cockatoos are worth more
(each!), here in the States, than a G-45 in perfect shape!)
More of Steve's
collection below!
Here is a nice collection
that originally was 2 photos and I "stitched" them together as well as I could.
Panoramas are tough!
CLICK
HERE
for another photo of Brian's collection and stuff!
Photo
thanks to Brian Roeder
These two small
collections belong to my brother Guy Nichols. Besides the fact that the guns
here are all in terrific shape, the thing that makes the upper mounting apart
is that it is mounted on some really fancy Canadian Birdseye Maple. So, when
you see it, not only do you notice the fine guns, but the overall effect is
quite nice. Thanks Guy!
In the author's
own words, "Mike, Well it was a nice day so I dug out some stuff to make a
picture for the collection page. I had to take the picture on the deck as there
is no place to take that big of a picture in the house. Too much stuff. That is
just a fraction of the cap guns that I have. I tried to get as much as I could
in one picture without making everything real small. Hope you like the
picture."
Even though this
is a museum, The Antique Cowboy I
still consider it quite a collection, for stores and museums that are devoted
to Antique Cap Guns and this sort of stuff are just wonderful. David Denton is
the contributor of this nice photo. He is also one of our
advertisers.
And another submission by
David Denton of the museum,
The Antique Cowboy, a Hopalong Cassidy Desk and
memorabilia. This is actually a genuine Hoppy Desk!!! There were tons of items
that were sold under the Hoppy name and this is one of the rarest. But how can
you study with all of this cool stuff?
How's this for a nice showcase (PLUS!) full of
mint Cap Guns, just lined up in a row? I even see a Kilgore Long Tom in there.
Those are worth about $1,000 and lookeeee at all of the boxes! My goodness. And
then there are whole sets and even American Flyer trains!
Thanks to Belinda
and Jim Quan of California!
Here's
a nice Cap Gun collection from David Marks. Sorry David, I had to piece
together the two photos that you sent me. I moved some of the guns so it would
fit.
Thanks for the offering!
Why is
it that I never find the good stuff and some people find cases of it?
David Denton is the lucky guy who found
these!
And how's this for a good
case display of caps? I am told that he has GOBS of display cases like this and
specializes in caps.
Photo thanks to Dick Presley.
These are some of
David Denton's favorite Cap Guns. Nice,
huh?
It's very common to see Toy Cap Gun collections like this. This
photo came from an Ebay auction. I contacted them and asked for permission, as
usual, but never got a reply so here it is. If they ever object, then I will
certainly be obliged to take it off. Thanks, whomever you are! I'm only working
for the good of the hobby. A fine little set of "Big-Uns" and
miniatures.
Now here's a nice collection
of Nichols Cap Guns. I wish I had taken it all, but I wasn't being a very good
photographer. There are more guns to the right. In fact, this is a complete
set, as far as I know. As I said, there are actually more. Bit of advice: If
the house burns down, save the guns, you can build a new house. Can you see
that gold plated Stallion 45 from Pasadena on the right side? It's an original
from the factory in Pasadena. Oh, one other point. Every single one of these
Cap Guns is a MINT ORIGINAL. Lookee, there's a copper plated "something" just
to the left of center. Lots of unusual ones in this collection. I wish I had
one as good. This particular collection has the first Nichols Cap Gun that EVER
came off of the assembly line! But be careful. You can't see it, but there's a
large stuffed Kodiak Bear about 20 feet away, guarding the whole set. And of
course, the regular trained guard dogs. And alarms.
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