James L. Dundas provides his readers with a sweeping survey of the shooting toys that gladdened the hearts of children from near the turn of the twentieth century to the 1990s. Concentrating heavily on the decades from the 1920s to the 1960s, over 420 color photographs display a dazzling array of BB guns, cap shooters, marble shooters, squirt guns, and more. Reminding us all of the long car rides and rainy days of our youth, when shooting was impossible, are a selection of colorful key chain puzzles that round out the presentation. Included in the text is a brief history of the Daisy BB Gun--complete with a Daisy BB gun chronology, instructions for determining whether a BB gun is functional or broken, and valuable advice for dating shooting toys with patent numbers, area codes, and zip codes. Price ranges are also provided for the toys shown.
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Professor James L. Dundas has collected toys for years. He specializes in toys from the 1920s through the 1950s.
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Toys That Shoot & key chain Puzzles?,
This review is from: Toys That Shoot: With Values (A Schiffer Book for Collectors) (Paperback)
One might mistake this for a toy Ray Gun book by the 2 classic ray guns on the cover but there are only 6 pages with ray guns . It is mostly BB guns , cap guns and bombs and for no logical reason 11 pages of key chain puzzles ! Photos are good , text is minimal though there is a good chronology of Daisy BB guns at the beginning . Values are OK but from 1998 so somewhat dated . If you are collecting bb guns or Keychain puzzles this might be worthwhile ; if you are into Ray Guns like me "Zap" or " Ray Gun " is a much better book.
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