toy gun part?

[Woodland Detectors]

Hey! Rain day today and nothing to do so im going through the what iz itz ive accumulated... I found this near Black mountain NC can anyone identify it?

[NGE]

Looks like part of cylinder for a capgun......NGE

[Bigcypresshunter]

Yes it looks like part of a cylinder from a six shot revolver. It looks like pot metal which would make it off a working toy pistol. I can see the ratchet gear that actually clicked as it revolved and pegs that held it in place to line up the holes with the barrel. It is lightweight zinc/aluminum pot metal alloy, right?

[Monty]

Looks too crude to be part of a real gun. Pot metal maybe? I remember having an authentic, non-firing copy of a Colt .45 revolver back in the 1950s and it looked and functioned like a real Colt except it had fake bullets that you peeled off and stuck caps to the end of, and it actually rotated and fired like a real gun. I think that's what you have....a part of a gun copy. Monty

[Woodland Detectors]

monty, your always right on. I was thinking the same thing. growing up I had some elaborate cap pistols but none that revolved with those type of large holes in them. hmmm pretty cool

[Bigcypresshunter]

Looks too crude to be part of a real gun. Pot metal maybe? I remember having an authentic, non-firing copy of a Colt .45 revolver back in the 1950s and it looked and functioned like a real Colt except it had fake bullets that you peeled off and stuck caps to the end of, and it actually rotated and fired like a real gun. I think that's what you have....a part of a gun copy. Monty

Good thinking Monty. We agree that the cylinder rotates and may have used these bullets that you described. But it must be a two piece cylinder and I cannot find an exact match. http://cgi.ebay.com/5-ORIGINAL-HUBLE...em290286896506

[Tony in SC]

Looks like the back part of the cylinder for a 1950s cap pistol called the "Fanner Fifty". It was a copy of the colt, was chrome plated and actually fired plastic slugs. I wanted one but the set with holsters was $4.50. Tony

[Bigcypresshunter]

Looks like the back part of the cylinder for a 1950s cap pistol called the "Fanner Fifty". It was a copy of the colt, was chrome plated and actually fired plastic slugs. I wanted one but the set with holsters was $4.50. Tony

You can buy one on eBay. http://cgi.ebay.com/Mattel-Fanner-Sh...3A1%7C294%3A50

Im looking at the Mattel Fanner Fifty but I dont see a 2 part cylinder.

The Hubley .45 colt appears to have 2 parts but is different.

[Monty]

The one I had did have a two piece cylinder, you could pull one out, reload and replace lit with a spare. The pegs fit into holes into the other half of the cylinder so the entire cylinder wouild rotate. Mine was given to me by an uncle and would have to have been from the forties when he was small enough to play with capguns. It wasn't a Fanner 50. It was the exact size and weight as a real .45 Army Colt, a replica. Monty

Found a picture of one with a two part cylinder, but it is not the exact one I had. Monty

[Bigcypresshunter]

The one I had did have a two piece cylinder, you could pull one out, reload and replace lit with a spare. The pegs fit into holes into the other half of the cylinder so the entire cylinder wouild rotate. Mine was given to me by an uncle and would have to have been from the forties when he was small enough to play with capguns. It wasn't a Fanner 50. It was the exact size and weight as a real .45 Army Colt, a replica. Monty

Found a picture of one with a two part cylinder, but it is not the exact one I had. Monty

I can see that the legs would line it up properly. That could be it Monty. How can you remember all this? I cant remember my cap guns. And why a spare? Was it sort of like a speed loader or did that part wear out?

[Monty]

I remember it because he took it back after I used it for a hammer and everything else! I'm still PO'd! But I can't remember why it had a spare. I'm thinking it was a pellet gun that had the spare and not the cap gun. Maybe you just had to take that out to load it? My memory just isn't that good. M nty

[Bigcypresshunter]

It seems to me a very dangerous toy. It looks like a kid could put a real bullet in the gun. You ever tried that as a kid Monty? What is that red thing sticking out the barrel?

[Monty]

It probably would be dangerous now days with all the gang bangers shooting one another. When I was a child every boy I knew had an "arsenal" of toy cap guns. It was traditional. Girls got dolls, boys got guns and holsters. Nobody paid much attention to them. We use to take our shotguns to school and put 'em in the mud closet until school was out. Then we'd hunt rabbits on the way home. Don't know what that red thing is, but it might be stuck in the end of the barrel so no one will mistake it for a real gun? Make sense? Monty