Here's one of my favorite cap guns. This baby is a whopping 21 inches long, and has the look and feel of a real gun. And it's mighty dang close to the prop Nick Adams carried on the show.
This gun was made by Classy Products, an outfit that made a lot of cheap-looking Roy Rogers pistols. This one, which doesn't look cheap at all, has a lot of fragile plastic. That's probably one reason it's rare today.
The fine print inside the cap loading chamber reads "Classy Prod. Co. Woodside, NY." The name Classy appeared nowhere on the box, but one of the end panels (as you'll see below) says "Harvell-Kilgore Sales Corporation, Bolivar, Tennessee." Never heard of Harvell, but Kilgore was a major player. I'm guessing they handled the distribution, at least on this gun, for Classy.
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I have one without the box in excellent condition.
I wonder what it's worth
I have one without the box and is in excellent condition.
Wondering what it's worth.
With the box and in excellent condition it has sold for over $3,000. Without the box it's probably somewhere around half that. I have one with the box and it's really quite impressive how close they got it to the actual one. By the way, the scattergun on the show was NOT a prop! It was an actual sawed-off shotgun. I purchased the real one about 20 years ago.
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