Holy cow! I still have my Fanner 50s! They are sitting on the shelf next to my reloading bench. I didn't realize anyone still valued them as I did... The fact that you remember them tells me at least one other person wanted one as bad as I did as a kid. Of course, I probably wouldn't have been given a matched set with a real leather double holster rig if my dad had not been such a fan of the old "B Western" movies... As far as he was concerned, the only good to come out of Hollywood rode out on horseback wearing six-shooters.
For those not "in the know", the Fanner 50 was a metal cap pistol... A revolver, more technically. It was not a downsized cheap chrome toy with a bright orange muzzle, but was instead the same size as the real Colt .45 Single Action Army revolver, with (on mine at least) a finish that looked like the Colt finish as well. It fit in a real holster. To put it in perspective: When I got mine for Christmas, the bottoms of the holsters (one on each side) reached my knees!
I guess that besides my father's teaching me a love and respect for guns, I also learned to take great care of them... So for that very reason I still have my favorite "toy" guns.
See one in action HERE
That is why every kid wanted one... About as cool as it got back then.
Regards,
Raven6
Thanks for the reminder.
Yes, I remember my Fanner ‘50, along with a Flexible Flyer sled as my most valuable (to me) childhood posessions. My very practical mother passed my cap guns on to cousins after she thought I outgrew them, but often is the time that I wish I had held onto them. I still have a couple of the shootin’ shells as mementos of those days.
I was recently looking through some old photos (late 1950’s, early 1960’s) with my grandchildren. The kids were especially interested in the Christmas photos, and of the toys that we received back then. I was amazed to find the original commercials for most of those toys on Youtube