HUBLEY "STAR" REUNITED

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Re: HUBLEY "STAR" REUNITED

It took Joe about 4 seconds to recognize the gun and the fact that he had the barrel to it. I am glad we could united the piece after so many years. I have fond memories of playing with one of those when I was a wee little man.

It was an awesome day even with the poop smell. LOL


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Re: HUBLEY "STAR" REUNITED

Cool find!

genlee said:
It was an awesome day even with the poop smell. LOL
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That's a mean way to talk about Joe. I mean, I did meet him once with Roger(getty) and I did notice a bit of a smell, but didn't wanna say anything! :laughing7:
 

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Re: HUBLEY "STAR" REUNITED

I really like finding them old cap guns too, a great matched pair of finds :thumbsup: Feberuary 1st I found my first complete Hubley cap gun. It's the Pal
 

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Re: HUBLEY "STAR" REUNITED

HA it may have been me for all that matters, I was feeling kind of ripe that day. LOL JK I think the farmer spreading manure was more than enough for all of us.



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Yeah when they spread that manure you can smell it miles away. Stinks pretty bad.
 

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ModernMiner said:
Nice old gun Joe.
Cap guns and capped busts in that field. :laughing9:
Congrats,
Dug
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Wishful thinking on the Capped Bust Doug,but Thank's :icon_thumright:
Wldbil said:
Very cool to be able to find the two pieces in seperate hunts... Even more amazing that you didn't throw away the barrel after all this time :laughing7:
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I rarely throw anything away until I get some kind of ID on it WildBill,Thank's
genlee said:
It took Joe about 4 seconds to recognize the gun and the fact that he had the barrel to it. I am glad we could united the piece after so many years. I have fond memories of playing with one of those when I was a wee little man.

It was an awesome day even with the poop smell. LOL


John
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Thank's for leaving it with me John......POOP smell is even worse now :tard: But they're DONE!!!!
Cool Hand Fluke said:
Really, really cool. 9 times out of ten these kind of cap guns come out of the ground in pieces. Way to go on a nice complete one! :icon_thumleft:
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Thank's Cool Hand!
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creskol said:
Awesome .. I love old cap guns! Good team work there! :thumbsup:
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Thank's Rob.....Any suggestion's on displaying?
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Are you going to reattach the barrel?
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I'd like to,could you send some info to me on how?
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If you want to, you can send it to me and I will attach the barrel for you. No charge other than shipping. Drop me a PM if you would like.
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Thank's Rob :icon_thumright: I'll get you a PM out later on tonight.
 

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Wldbil said:
Even more amazing that you didn't throw away the barrel after all this time :laughing7:
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Believe me when I say my husband throws Nothing away...we've got the basement, spare room and stuff moving into the barn to prove it. :laughing7: He's a dedicated collector of many things - just saving history one piece at a time. :headbang: Gotta love it.

matt092079 said:
Yeah when they spread that manure you can smell it miles away. Stinks pretty bad.
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Yeah with those winds we had that day coming from the West, we thought it was you, until we saw the tractor coming up the drive. :laughing7: :laughing7: (JK ;D )
 

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Making progress .........................................
 

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Re: HUBLEY "STAR" REUNITED

Very Cool!!
 

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Re: HUBLEY "STAR" REUNITED

super find there. :blob7:
 

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Making progress .........................................
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That is so cool Creskol. What is that thing you have it soaking in? Can't wait to see it when it's done. :)
 

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If it's anything like your other restoration's Rob,I'm going to be on happy camper :icon_thumright: Thank You Sir!!
 

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...the work continues ..........
 

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Wow it is great to see such love for old toys here! This post got me to thinking. Believe that I have one that is largely intact minus only a few minor parts. Found it while metal detecting around the remains of an old one room county school. Thought I was rather skunked on that day because that was it for the whole afternoon not a single coin. If I recall right the toy gun is not very large. And it has a bulls head with horns on the handle. What is the approximate age of these toy guns?
 

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CoinandRelicMan said:
Wow it is great to see such love for old toys here! This post got me to thinking. Believe that I have one that is largely intact minus only a few minor parts. Found it while metal detecting around the remains of an old one room county school. Thought I was rather skunked on that day because that was it for the whole afternoon not a single coin. If I recall right the toy gun is not very large. And it has a bulls head with horns on the handle. What is the approximate age of these toy guns?
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The Hubley Star originally had a nickel finish, and was popular enough that they were made for a duration of 10 years .. from 1955-1965.
 

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This is the one cap gun was found out by a falling down one room school house. Not sure if this gun ever had any nickel plate tho. Does this look like the 1955 to 1965 model?
 

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CoinandRelicMan said:
This is the one cap gun was found out by a falling down one room school house. Not sure if this gun ever had any nickel plate tho. Does this look like the 1955 to 1965 model?
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Yours looks like a Hubley Tex, made from 1955 -1960. It should measure about 5 3/4 inches long by 2.5 inches high, and should say TEX on the other side. The construction is two piece die cast metal and it originally had a bright silver finish .. not sure if it was nickel plated .. but it was a shiny silver originally.

Nice little gun!
 

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Creskol,
With those pictures I will never be able to give Joe a hard time about keeping every little piece of everything :BangHead: :laughing7: Can't wait to see the final outcome.
 

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