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Tom Wallace has collected and played with cap
guns since he was a kid. He and Gary Davis were the subjects of a very
interesting article by Pete Dickey in The American Rifleman, which is
the magazine of the National Rifle Association back in July 1989. Tom and Gary
had all kinds of guns as kids but especially wanted a Nichols Stallion 45,
which they said they could not afford. Well, Tom has made up for that lack in
SPADES and here is (probably just part) of his Nichols collection, which
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Here's a very long table, the most important part being that Tom
was in the United States Marine Corps. Your author was also in the Marine Corps
in a way. Actually I "won" the lottery during the Vietname War and rather than
being in the Army, I immediately joined the Navy and wound up with the Marine
Corps, as a hospital corpsman. I asked an officer if I could refer to myself as
a former Marine and he said that "once a Marine, always a Marine and said I
definitely could, since I spent over 5 years with them. Love those Marines!!!
Anyway, back to the Cap Guns. These are all Stallion 45's, some of which are
Pasadena versions and some of which are Jacksonville versions. An interesting
thing to notice is over in the lower right you can see that there are more
boxes just stacked up. I wonder what they are?
Here are a bunch of
"bullet firing" Nichols Cap Guns. You will notice that Tom has all three
different colors of holsters for the Model 61. The Chrome 61 in the front has a
reproduction white grip, but it surely does look nice.
And here is the
creme-de-la-creme of the Nichols collection: the famous Nichols Model 95 rifle.
This one looks in tip-top condition as compared to mine which is only a C-7.
More Model 61s and a bunch of Derringers and Detectives. All of these would
probably be illegal these days because America seems to have lost its mind.
When we were kids we never thought of lethal confrontations and every boy in
school carried a knife. In high school half of the boys who drove to school had
a gun rack in the back of their truck with a shotgun, a rifle and usually a
walking cane in the 3rd spot and they might have been loaded. The most amazing
part was that usually the trucks weren't even locked. Nobody even thought of
stealing them and certainly no one thought of doing bodily harm to another
student—even if the two parties got into a heated fist fight. It was a
different day and the parents must have instilled some different values in
their kids. Your author, of course, had guns ALL OVER THE HOUSE, but I knew
which ones were real and which ones weren't and how to properly handle them and
I was just a little kid.
A better
view of the left side of the Stallion table.
The middle of the
Stallion table, transitioning between Pasadena Stallions and Jacksonvile
Stallion 45 MK-IIs. I personally like the boxes almost as much as the guns,
especially the rarer boxes, for in those days kids didn't value the boxes
hardly at all, so they are doggone rare!
Here's the right side of
the Stallion table showing an especially rare Stallion 45 MK-II with a
Dyna-Mite combination.
Tom even has BOTH the
Stallion 32 in the Pasadena flavor and the bottom one is the Jacksonville
flavor. Believe it or not, Nichols used up as many as they could of the boxes
and guns from Pasadena AFTER they moved to Jacksonville as they could. This led
to a semi-"showdown" with the city fathers leader to Uncle Talley tooling up a
special "Pilot Run" Stallion 38, whose story you will find on the Stallion 38
page of this website. I think Robert is probably the only one who still has one
of them. (Lucky Guy!!!)
Here's our buddy Tom in what
must be the room of the house with the least Cap Guns in it. I'm getting ready
to add another page to his little spot since he is sending me so many
photos!
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