Joe K. Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 . The end flaps of the box say: Shooting Plane Jack Armstrong Inventor. The back side has Directions. The long sides say: IMPORTANT: Never point this gun towards yourself or any other person. Jack Armstrong. The return address is Gold Medal Foods Inc. Minneapolis, Minn. The litho tin saucers are blue on one side, yellow and red swirled on the other. The gun itself is stamped: Daisy Mfg. Co. Plymouth Mich Pat. No. ????? The lower half of this page from the September 24, 1933 issue of The Salt Lake Tribune dates the toy: My questions: Can it be considerd a space gun? Is it the first saucer gun ever made? And, the inevitable question... what's it worth? . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 I saw this gun on ebay a lot of times. Loose in good condition: 15-25 $. I like it, it's a nice, interesting vintage toy but not a space gun to my eyes... :-(http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beautiful-Spin-Launcher-Tin-Gun-Windup-Toy-L-K-/170919714946?pt=Vintage_Antique_Toys_US&hash=item27cb9be082 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Danger Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 I picked this up, a few weeks ago, but just got around to fixing up the box and photographing it. This is the first one I've seen that still has the little, metal wrench for winding the gun, which is a bit superfluous, since you can easily wind the mechanism with your hand. That's probably why so many of them were lost. I agree that it's not a space gun, but it's hard to deny its influence on space gun design in the years that followed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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