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The Cowhand is one of those medium sized toy cap
pistols that came out during the last few years before the total control of
Kusan. It was a 250 shot repeater and only cost $ .98. The design was quite
simple and it used roll caps. This gun came out in 1961. It was designed to
fill in a market for medium guns that didn't cost very much, and so the little
tykes could afford them. It also supplemented the other end of the line, that
is the Stallions.
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Your basic Cowhand Cap
Pistol
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Another nice Nichols Cap
Gun
on an original store card.
Photo contribution by Jamie Linford
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An old Nichols
Industries
Cowhand Ad.
Click to see!
Photo
contribution by Robert Nichols |
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An old Nichols
Industries
1961 catalog page.
Click to
see!
Photo contribution by Robert Nichols |
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Since it
wasn't very fancy and was one of the lesser guns, finding one in pristine shape
is a challenge because very few people saved them, thinking that they would not
become a collector's item. Still, you can find one in pretty good shape. The
primary reason to own one of these Cowhands is to complete the set.
This photo show how the cylinder area opens
up to allow you to put in the roll caps. My photo. |
This blued Cowhand is
pretty rare.
Photo thanks to Chuck Quinn
And so is this later offering of the Cowhand gun
& holster. This was sometime AFTER 1965, when Uncle Talley sold out to
Kusan, but I include it here because...this is the Cowhand page, after
all.
Photo thanks to Chuck Quinn
This is a
very rare Cowhand that was copper painted at the Nichols factory. There aren't
very many of these around.
Photo thanks to Jamie Linford
Now here's an unusual use for the Nichols
Cowhand. Richard says that these are pretty doggone rare and that Roland Adams
(former president of Nichols Industries) said that Nichols actually made
them.
Thanks to Richard Strom for the above photo!
Here's another fine photo from Richard Strom of
Jacksonville, Texas. His mom used to work in the Nichols plant. These are part
of his collection of Nichols Cowhands.
Thanks Richard
for the photo.
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