Iron toy gun age and make?

[Ammoman]

I dug this toy gun last week and was wondering I’f any toy hounds might be able to identify it?



Almost done with electrolysis so would also like a little advice on preserving it.


Thanks for your help!

 

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[nhbenz]

Good job on the electrolysis, it certainly makes an ID easy:
The Big Chief from Dent Hardware, made in the 1930’s despite its earlier look, as mentioned here (where the picture is from): https://www.grandoldtoys.com/toydb_Detail.php?id=295

 

[ecmo]

Wow excellent I.d. ! It amazes me how members on here a big part of the time make such fast and accurate identifications, and here was old me who grew up in the childhood era of the kid cowboys of the 50s and 60s thinking iron or steel toy pistols don't remember them ever being made of anything other than pot metal. Next post boom positively identified. Congratulations to both of you.

 

[Ammoman]

Thank you so much to Nhbenz for the super fast ID! I too have never seen a cast iron toy gun so i was pretty happy to pluck this one from the ground. It looks like everything is still intact including the trigger. You cant see the trigger in the picture because its pushed back. But its there.

Again, thank you!

 

[SD51]

Thank you so much to Nhbenz for the super fast ID! I too have never seen a cast iron toy gun so i was pretty happy to pluck this one from the ground. It looks like everything is still intact including the trigger. You cant see the trigger in the picture because its pushed back. But its there.

Again, thank you!

Agree, great ID Nhbenz.

When I first looked at your gun, I remembered I got the Mattel Shootin Shell Derringer / Belt Buckle that would actually shoot a projectile (shootin shell).
Here's a pic...



The derringer would pivot out when you flexed your stomach muscles.

Wish a had a time machine and could go back and bring a few cases of these back.

They also made rifles and pistols that were good replicas of real guns. Here's a pistol in the box. Wonder what the message to the parents said...



I had to laugh about the note on this pic about the safe bullets...



Guess we didn't shoot our eyes out!

 

[Clad2Silver]

Agree, great ID Nhbenz.

When I first looked at your gun, I remembered I got the Mattel Shootin Shell Derringer / Belt Buckle that would actually shoot a projectile (shootin shell).
Here's a pic...

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The derringer would pivot out when you flexed your stomach muscles.

Wish a had a time machine and could go back and bring a few cases of these back.

They also made rifles and pistols that were good replicas of real guns. Here's a pistol in the box. Wonder what the message to the parents said...

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I had to laugh about the note on this pic about the safe bullets...

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Guess we didn't shoot our eyes out!

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I had the Shootin' shell Derringer belt buckle when I was a kid. Being a kid in the 1950's, toy guns were always a big part of the toys we played with. I had a number of different cap guns and pistols but my all time favorite was a gun that was made to look like the gun that Chuck Connors had when he played "The Rifleman" on TV. All us kids would have many "gunfights" with those cap guns and I'm pretty sure that none of us became criminals because of it.

 

[SD51]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I had the Shootin' shell Derringer belt buckle when I was a kid. Being a kid in the 1950's, toy guns were always a big part of the toys we played with. I had a number of different cap guns and pistols but my all time favorite was a gun that was made to look like the gun that Chuck Connors had when he played "The Rifleman" on TV. All us kids would have many "gunfights" with those cap guns and I'm pretty sure that none of us became criminals because of it.

I remember that gun, didn't have one, but sure liked the show.

 

[Ammoman]

Yep...loved playing cops and robbers cowboys and Indians and of course war! Can’t do that today. Poor children have to stay inside and let someone else shape their imaginations for them.

 

[A2coins]

Good I'd good job on electrolysis

 

[Clad2Silver]

Yep...loved playing cops and robbers cowboys and Indians and of course war! Can’t do that today. Poor children have to stay inside and let someone else shape their imaginations for them.

Ain't that the truth...….glued to some type of electronic device

 

[Clad2Silver]

I remember that gun, didn't have one, but sure liked the show.

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That's the one.....As for the show, we watched that show every week. I remember that my mother wasn't too fond of Johnny Crawford who played the son because of the way he said "pa". He kind of pronounced it as "paw" and it drove her crazy...…..LOL