SPACE PILOT MISSILE GUN - MERIT - ENGLAND

Silver plastic space gun. Shoots plastic "safety" darts, cocked by pulling plunger from the back. The gun has a working compass on the top. Velocity dial. The gun follows the English habit of having mock dials with elaborate but non functioning settings: one side has a green dial with planet names, the other has a blue dial with number settings. The depiction of a spaceman on the box art is deliberately similar to Dan D are and the gun has much in common with the Rocket Dart Gun, including the message carrying darts. English c1954.

Merit was the trading name of J & L Randall.