1880's-1890's ROYAL TOP SPINNING TOY CAP PISTOL & SHOTGUN GUN DEALER AD CARD

Description

Original & very rare 1880's-1890's advertising trade card illustrating "The Royal Top Spinning Pistol" toy cap pistol & "New Champion Shot Gun". The card advertises on the back "John P. Lovell & Sons, Dealer in Guns, Rifles, Revolvers, Air Rifles, Air Pistols, Fishing Tackle, etc., 147 Washington Street, Boston, Mass."
The front of the card has the wording "John P. Lovell & Sons, Gun Dealers, Boston, Mass." at the bottom. There is a scene with a man & a woman in the woods. Under the scene is the wording "Look for his wife If you cannot find her heat the card."
So, this is a hold to light card of sorts. We tried it. But, it looks the same to us either way.
The ad on the back is printed at a slight angle slanted up to the right as issued. The card has light brown toning from age on both sides. Otherwise, the card is in near mint condition.
In over 50 years of buying advertising cards we looked at millions of cards. We have bought & sold literally hundreds of thousands of ad cards. In all of that time this is the one & only ad card that we have ever seen or even heard of which has an ad for an animated toy cap pistol. A extremely rare card, indeed!!!!!!!
Please examine the clear photos that we have provided & purchase based on your own opinion as to the condition. Our inventory number of this item is #6197.
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This card is not a toy cap pistol. In order to list this paper ad card in the cap pistol category we are including the following sentence due to the requirement to have this sentence in listings for cap pistols: "
This replica gun contains the colored markings required by law, including a permanently attached orange plug." However, this listing is not for a toy cap pistol but it is for an item which would be of interest to collectors of toy cap pistols.