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Fully functional and working 4.5mm or .177 cal BB gun.
This is the iconic Ralphie Parker, Red Ryder, lever action, .177 bb rifle carbine from the movie "A Christmas Story", with the compass and sundial in the stock. (He asked for it a mere 28 times in the movie)!
While Daisy became a recognizable brand name, the company did its best to goose sales during the economic downturn of the 1930s. Kid-friendly cowboy actors like Buzz Barton and Buck Jones were used for tie-in advertising. So was Buck Rogers, the space fantasy comic strip hero who inspired a Buck Rogers Rocket Pistol and Buck Rogers Disintegrator Pistol.
In spring 1940, Daisy tackled Red Ryder, another bit of synergy that paid off. Reportedly, the strip’s creators, Slesinger and Harman, suggested Daisy make a Red Ryder revolver: Daisy offered instead to rename an existing BB carbine after the character. Although production of the steel rifle was interrupted from 1943 to 1945 as a result of World War II, the Red Ryder wound up moving 1 million rifles in 1949 alone, a massive success for Daisy. It was, as the film depicted, a highly desirable plaything.In A Christmas Story, Ralphie is hellbent on acquiring a “Red Ryder range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time.”
Although Ralphie lusted after a real gun, the particular model he coveted wasn’t exactly one you could buy off the shelf.
This was a bit of creative license: The Red Ryder didn’t have a compass or sundial. The previously-mentioned Buck Jones rifle did, however. It’s possible author Jean Shepherd, whose work inspired the movie—he’s also the narrator—misremembered the gun from his own youth as a Red Ryder. In the end, Ralphie’s trophy was an amalgam of the two, with Daisy agreeing to modify a Red Ryder with a compass and a silkscreen sundial for the props used in the movie.
Daisy soon brought out this model "A Christmas Dream".
The model was produced in 1983 & 1984.
This particular gun was made in 1984 (lot number starts with a "4", see pic 16).
They later offered 3 different commemorative models, many of which were bought up by collectors and investors and remain sealed in the boxes to this day.
But this one is a true first edition, regular production gun.
You almost never see standard grade guns in this condition!
Measures 35 & 1/2" OAL.
Weight is 2 lbs., 6 ozs.
I will accept returns, with a 15% restocking fee, you pay return shipping.
