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Even more Cap Guns from Mattel!
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Mattel Fanner 50
Wrangler Holster Set
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Here's
another variation of the Fanner 50 promotion with a Dura-Hyde holster. The box
would fold up as a target, but I would have used it simply for display
purposes.
Thanks to Brian Roeder/Don Raker. |
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Mattel Fanner
50
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Mattel is one of the most
famous toy companies that there ever has been.
Their Cap
Guns, however, are still out there and are still being collected by very avid
fans. The Mattel Fanner 50 is one of the most famous Cap Guns that has ever
been made. And who can forget Greenie Stik-M-Caps®? |
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And a nice
boxed set!
The Above Photos
Courtesy of I Sell Neat Stuff |
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And here's a couple
of nice photos of a Black Fanner 50 with the VERY unusual white Impala grips!
This rare Cap Gun is from 1967. It is called "The Cowboy In Africa" model, for
a short-lived series starring Chuck Conners (the Rifleman!).
Thank you so
much Derek Hadfield for these photos! |
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of nice photos of the grips from our good friend from California, Doug
Hamilton, to go with this group. |
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Here's a Chuck Conners labeled Cowboy In Africa set with the
Fanner 50 from our friend Scott McCollum.
Here are a couple of
wonderful Lone Ranger sets from our buddy Bob DeFeis (see his collection!). You
might notice that the grips of the set on the left have the African theme,
which is why I put them here. The ones on the right are plain white. Hey...what
about Tonto? Without him the Lone Ranger would have died many times
over!
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Mattel Fanner 50
Cowboy in Africa/Lone Ranger Set
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This is a
fine set showing how companies can capitalize on every little hero at the same
time. The show "Cowboy in Africa" and "The Lone Ranger."
Thanks to Gary
Cooper |
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This is a nice Fanner 50
Marshal set from Scott McCollum. Notice the very rare red holster set. Mattel
offered these in 4 colors, supposedly because they were trying to attract girls
to buying them.
Here's one of these different colored holster set in blue from
Rich Hall. This one also has the more rare larger Mattel
bullets.
And again, here
is an offering from Rich Hall. This is a "Fanner 50" cap gun with the
"grapefruit" style rotating cylinder in excellent condition, but the unusual
thing about this set is the holster. it is an exact copy of a Mattel "Marshal"
single holster except that it is stamped "Texas Ranger" and has loops for only
nine(9) bullets instead of eighteen(18) on the Mattel produced holsters. Even
the stamped lettering is the same style block lettering used by Mattel on their
holsters. It was made by Modern Toys Company of Japan. Modern Toys manufactured
many high quality copies of American made cap guns and this holster is no
exception to the quality of materials and workmanship exhibited by Modern Toys.
At first glance one would think that it is a Mattel holster for the "Fanner 50"
until you look further and see that the name above the holster pocket is
different and that the makers mark and "Made in Japan" are stamped on the belt
below the name.
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Very Early
Mattel Fanner 50 Double Holster Set
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That blank yellow sticker on
the box makes this set rare, and they are the first model Fanner 50 guns Mattel
made with the nickel finish and a stationary cylinder. They later added a
yellow sticker that said "NEW bullet loading action." The factory must have
tested putting this sticker on some boxes without the Bullet loading Action
printed on the sticker.
Thanks to our buddy Scott McCollum for these
photos. |
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Please Click On Each Thumbnail For An
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And here's
another example of how a company will take an idea and re-package it into
something else. It's still the basic "Cowboy in African" approach, from Scott
McCollum.
Here's a smoking Fanner-50 from the TV show (I guess) with the
Impala grips from Jamie Linford one of our
advertisers.
Here is a Rango by Mattel.
It's basically a "Cowboy in Africa" Cap Gun, but with a different name. You can
just barely see behind the holster where it says, "FANNER 50." This is one I
have never seen before. But I don't get around much!
Photo by Tim
Tobin
Well, about the time I
get a photo of a single holster set, someone sends me a double set. Pretty
nice, huh?
Photo by Neil Cowen
And yet another way to
package the Rango Fanner 50.
Photo by Tim Tobin
This is the same
"series" (if you can call it that) rifle by Mattel. Rango was a very short
comedy Western series starring Tim Conway that didn't do well.
Photos by Tim
Tobin
Here is a different Fanner
50 box that is from 1958.
This is the same box as above, but you
will notice that it doesn't have the promotional sticker on the left
side.
The Mattel Crossdraw Fanner 50 was the marketing
fellows—grabbing at the Bat Masterson and Bronco Lane audience. It's a
childhood favorite of mine, and when I find my Bat Masterson cane they're going
to be kept right next to each other. The Fanner 50 was the workhorse gun for
Mattel and before and after Shootin' Shell guns they were still making them. A
rarer holster that still has pizazz! I love crossdraw holsters to this day
because of Bat. Gene Barry made the role his own as so many western stars did,
and this was only one product ancillary to the character. Oh my good right arm
for a Carnell Stag Handled Bat Masterson pistol!
Thanks to Pete
McDermott for this photo! (and text!)
And here's a nice Smoking
Fanner 50 in a shadow box from Jamie Linford.
And yet another Fanner 50
with bullet pak from Jamie Linford.
Here's the Dura-Hyde gun and
holster set with the Shootin' Shell Fanner with the display cover intact on the
right and that cover removed on the left side.
Thanks again to Jamie
Linford.
Here's the same basic
concept, but in a double holster set.
Here's a mint in the box
Dura-Hyde Fanner 50 set that is really nice!
Photo thanks to Scott McCollum
of Cap Gun Treasures.
CLICK ON PHOTO TO SEE THE
BACK OF BOX!
Here's a couple
of photos (above and below) of a Shootin' Shell Fanner in a "Shadow Box" that
is complete with greenie® STIK-M-CAPS®. This particular example is as MINT as
you will ever see. I don't even see any fingerprints on it. Where do people
find these things? I can't find any! Art says he found it stored away in a
Goodwill Store. Lucky stiff!!!!!
These photos by Art Hannah. Thanks!
This is a type
of Fanner and Buckle Gun and Gun Holster Set I had not seen before! But the box
is the main thing. It's quite different from any of the other Fanner
boxes.
Photo thanks to Larry McGrew of California.
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| Mattel
Snub Nose 38 |
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In the latter years more non-West guns
were made. Here is the right view. |
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This Mattel gun is in pretty good shape.
I can see how toys like this could fool a good cop! |
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Thanks to
"Koons Kollectibles" for the above photos!
Click on thumbnails to see nice
examples by Ken Thompson! |
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Top view of the box that this snub-nosed 38
might come in. |
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Side view of the box that this snub-nosed 38
might come in. |
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| Thanks to
"I
SELL NEAT STUFF" (Judy Sinkular) for these photos. |
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Dick Tracy Snub
Nose .38 Set
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Here is a mint set with the
gun, holster, etc that is dedicated to the comic strip character Dick
Tracy.
Photos thanks to Rich Hall of Cap Gun Toys |
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Mattel Shootin'
Shell Snub Nose 38
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This may look like a Smith and Wesson,
but it's not. It's a Mattel. And it doesn't have a cylinder that comes out of
the left side to reload, but has a loading gate like a Colt 45.
Thanks to Doug
Hamilton for the photos.
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