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J. & E. Stevens was a business in Cromwell, Connecticut formed by John and Elisha Stevens in 1843 to make cast-iron hardware, hammers, and iron toys. The success of their toy products, including cap guns, led to a refocus on toys. [1] The company made a wide variety of toys for boys and girls during its more than 100 year history. [2] The ...
Entertech. "The look! The feel! The sound, so real!" A promotional magazine scan showing off guns from the first generation. Entertech was a brand of battery-powered motorized water guns sold in the United States from 1985 to 1990 by the now-defunct LJN. [1] [2] [3] Unlike the colorful designs of many of the simple hand powered pump water guns ...
The Buffalo Bill Gun was one of the first toys made by the Milton Bradley Company. The toy was based on the popular Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. [1] The strenuous life, so widely favored as the century drew to its close, was reflected in many games that Americans played at home. [1] The Milton Bradley Company, like many other game ...
On a microfilm copy of the local newspaper I came across a national news article dated December 14 1975 that a Fort Meyers, Florida father found out .357 magnum bullets fit in his son's Stallion .45 cap gun. A sheriff said a test was inconclusive but the cap gun could possibly fire.
Deluxe Reading dolls were sold in the 1950s–1970s through supermarkets and are often referred to as Grocery Store Dolls. They were an inexpensive alternative to department store dolls, although of similar quality. Another successful toy for girls was the "Dream Kitchen" (circa 1961) which consisted of four 12-inch-tall colorful kitchen ...
III is the third studio album by American indie rock band Shiny Toy Guns. It was released on October 22, 2012, by Five Seven Music. The album features the return of the band's original female vocalist, Carah Faye Charnow. [5] The album spawned three singles: "Waiting Alone", "Fading Listening", and "Somewhere to Hide".
A rifled musket, rifle musket, or rifle-musket is a type of firearm made in the mid-19th century. Originally the term referred only to muskets that had been produced as a smoothbore weapon and later had their barrels replaced with rifled barrels. The term later included rifles that directly replaced, and were of the same design overall as, a ...
The Dunn Manufacturing Company also built a 3-seat Cruzeaire Monoplane in 1928. [4] In 1936 Dunn teamed up with Cecil Lewis "Catfish" Parris, a marketing specialist, to form the Parris-Dunn company. The company was formed with Parris as President and Dunn as Vice President to sell a wind driven generator [5] for farms to recharge electrical items.