RARE AND VERY FINE DAYTON TOY & SPECIALTY COMPANY “CHARLES BLACKMORE PATENT” CARBIDE TOY CANNON, 1928.

It is interesting that this “Big Bang” carbide cannon competitor was advertised in magazine “Playthings” December, 1928 three months before the patent was applied for. Dayton Toy Specialty Company offered carbide cannon as item number 110 in this ad for sell for four-dollars. This functional toy cannon has appearance of WW1 heavy field guns. Dayton Toy & Specialty Company made a line of metal trucks, cars and other boy’s toys till the Great Depression put them out of business. Toy weighs 14 pounds and is 20” long. There are thought to be very few survivors of this cannon as we can find no recorded sales of this rare toy and only two examples in toy museum or collections. Charles C. Blackmore’s patent was filed February 1, 1929, Serial No. 336,816. Blackmore was an extremely prolific inventor of the 1920’s-30’s. Google patents lists no fewer than 338 patents for toys, bombs, guns, shock absorbers, fans, radios, and other consumer, industrial, and military hardware of all kinds. “It is the object of my invention to provide a gas cannon in which the generation of the gas (acetylene) and the conveying of the materials to a gas forming chamber will be remote from the chamber of the gun. My object is to provide a gas gun having the safety feature of complete delivery of materials and generation of the gas remotely from the gun chamber as distinguished from that class of gas guns and cannons where the is generated in the chamber of the gun. It is a further object to provide means of exactly measuring the quantity of carbide and other gas forming material which is to be delivered to the gas forming chamber without using any moving parts for such measurement like valves, etc. It is a further object to provide such a measuring means in combination with ventilation means to insure positively the ventilation of the gun or cannon between each measurement and delivery of gas forming material to the gas chamber. It is an additional object to provide a gas forming chamber which carries water or other gas forming material that can be detached front the cannon and thoroughly cleaned. (Other) carbide gas cannons have quickly become useless because the accumulation of precipitate, which rapidly hardens in the air rendering the gun useless. It is a further object to provide a gas cannon in which the charge can be ignited by a fulminate cap. It is also an object to provide such a cannon in which the charge can be ignited by pyrophoric metal or a fulminate cap at the option of the user. It is an important object of my invention to provide a striking hammer and lanyard for remote firing of the cannon to insure the removal of the child at some distance from the cannon before it is fired. It is my object to provide a gas-forming chamber which is suspended at some distance from the cannon so that all the gas must be generated remotely from the interior of the cannon and then delivered in gaseous form to the barrel of the gun or cannon.” PROVENANCE: Springfield Arsenal, LLC Artillery Collection. CONDITION: Very good and functional as painted with a dark OD paint. 4-54161 (800-1,200) – Lot 2133

Auction: Firearms - March 2015

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

Image	Lot	Price	Description
	2133	$708.00	RARE AND VERY FINE DAYTON TOY & SPECIALTY COMPANY “CHARLES BLACKMORE PATENT” CARBIDE TOY CANNON, 1928. It is interesting that this “Big Bang” carbide cannon competitor was advertised in magazine “Playthings” December, 1928 three months before the patent was applied for. Dayton Toy Specialty Company offered carbide cannon as item number 110 in this ad for sell for four-dollars. This functional toy cannon has appearance of WW1 heavy field guns. Dayton Toy & Specialty Company made a line of metal trucks, cars and other boy’s toys till the Great Depression put them out of business. Toy weighs 14 pounds and is 20” long. There are thought to be very few survivors of this cannon as we can find no recorded sales of this rare toy and only two examples in toy museum or collections. Charles C. Blackmore’s patent was filed February 1, 1929, Serial No. 336,816. Blackmore was an extremely prolific inventor of the 1920’s-30’s. Google patents lists no fewer than 338 patents for toys, bombs, guns, shock absorbers, fans, radios, and other consumer, industrial, and military hardware of all kinds. “It is the object of my invention to provide a gas cannon in which the generation of the gas (acetylene) and the conveying of the materials to a gas forming chamber will be remote from the chamber of the gun. My object is to provide a gas gun having the safety feature of complete delivery of materials and generation of the gas remotely from the gun chamber as distinguished from that class of gas guns and cannons where the is generated in the chamber of the gun. It is a further object to provide means of exactly measuring the quantity of carbide and other gas forming material which is to be delivered to the gas forming chamber without using any moving parts for such measurement like valves, etc. It is a further object to provide such a measuring means in combination with ventilation means to insure positively the ventilation of the gun or cannon between each measurement and delivery of gas forming material to the gas chamber. It is an additional object to provide a gas forming chamber which carries water or other gas forming material that can be detached front the cannon and thoroughly cleaned. (Other) carbide gas cannons have quickly become useless because the accumulation of precipitate, which rapidly hardens in the air rendering the gun useless. It is a further object to provide a gas cannon in which the charge can be ignited by a fulminate cap. It is also an object to provide such a cannon in which the charge can be ignited by pyrophoric metal or a fulminate cap at the option of the user. It is an important object of my invention to provide a striking hammer and lanyard for remote firing of the cannon to insure the removal of the child at some distance from the cannon before it is fired. It is my object to provide a gas-forming chamber which is suspended at some distance from the cannon so that all the gas must be generated remotely from the interior of the cannon and then delivered in gaseous form to the barrel of the gun or cannon.” PROVENANCE: Springfield Arsenal, LLC Artillery Collection. CONDITION: Very good and functional as painted with a dark OD paint. 4-54161 (800-1,200) – Lot 2133 Auction: Firearms - March 2015 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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RARE AND VERY FINE DAYTON TOY & SPECIALTY COMPANY “CHARLES BLACKMORE PATENT” CARBIDE TOY CANNON, 1928.