Hartland Vintage Famous Western Cowboys, Baseball Figures
Hartland Plastics, Inc. of Hartland, Wisconsin USA was in business from 1941+ and produced plastic figures of baseball players, military figures, famous western TV cowboy and gunfighter characters and Indians often with their horses, that are of good quality and highly collectible today.
The 1950s-1960s Hartland 6-9″ figures date is of the TV show – actual date the figure was on market is probably a year or so later.
Hartland Famous Western Cowboy, Horses and Baseball Figures Identified
1949+ Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and horse Silver and Tonto (Jay Silverheels) and his brown and white horse Scout of The Long Ranger TV show series 19149-1957.
1951 Dale Evans, (as herself) with favorite horse named Buttermilk or 1951 Roy Rogers (as himself) with his famous horse named Trigger and German shepherd dog named Bullet, both figures from The Roy Rogers TV show series 1951-1957.
1953 Annie Oakley, (Gail Davis), with her horse named Target, from The Annie Oakley TV show 1953-1956 TV show series.
1954 Canadian Mountie Sergeant Lance O’Rourke a generic Mountie with a black horse, who is not modeled on a TV character.
1955 Cheyenne Bodie, (Clint Walker) with his galloping brown horse named Brandy, from the Cheyenne TV show series 1955-1962.
1955 Marshall Matt Dillon, (James Arness), with horse named Buck, from Gunsmoke TV show series 1955-1975.
1955 Wyatt Earp, (Hugh O’Brien) with his horse named Justice, from Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp TX show series 1955-1961.
1955 Sergeant Frank Preston, (Richard Simmons) with his horse named Rex, from Sergeant Preston of the Yukon TV show series 1955-1958.
1956 Tom Jeffords (John Lupton) Indian agent and horse, from the Broken Arrow TV show series 1956-1958.
1956 The Jockey with a horse, a generic figure of no particular person with a horse, not based on a personality or TV show.
1957 Major Seth Adams, (Ward Bond) with his horse named Stormy Night, from Wagon Train TV show series 1957-1965.
1957 Vint Bonner, (John Payne) with his horse named Scar, from the TV show The Restless Gun 1957-1959.
1957 Captain Chris Colt, (Wayde Preston) a standing figure, from the TV show Colt .45 1957-1960.
1957 Jim Hardie, (Dale Robertson) with his horse named Jubilee or Fargo, from the TV show Tales of Wells Fargo 1957-1962.
1957 Deputy Marshall Johnny McKay, (Peter Brown) with a horse, sidekick to Dan Troop from The Lawman TV show series 1957-1963.
1957 Sheriff Clay Hollister (Pat Conway) with his horse named Mormont, from the Tombstone Territory TV show series 1957-1959.
1957 Bret Maverick, (James Garner) with his horse named Liberty, from the Maverick TV show series 1957-1962.
1957 Paladin (Richard Boone) with his horse named Rafter, from TV show Have Gun Will Travel 1957-1963.
1958 Colonel Ranald Mackenzie (Richard Carlson) with a black rearing horse, from TV show MacKenzie’s Riders 1958-1959.
1958 Josh Randall (Steve McQueen) with his horse named Ringo, from TV show Wanted Dead or Alive 1958-1961.
1959 Nick Adams, (Johnny Yuma) with an appaloosa horse, from the TV show The Rebel 1959-1961.
1959 Gil Favor (Eric Fleming) with a horse, from the Rawhide TV show series 1959-1965.
1958 Hartland Five Baseball action figures; Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Warren Spahn.
1959-1963 Hartland Football players action figures; Johnny Unitas, Jon Arnett, plus 28 others.
1960 Hartland 13 Baseball figures; Luis Aparicio, Ernie Banks, Yogi Berra, Rocky Colavito, Don Drysdale, Nellie Fox, Richard Dick Groat, Harmon Killebrew, Willie Mays, Roger Maris, Stan Musial, Duke Snider, Ted Williams.
Hartland Western figures; Brave Eagle and horse White Cloud, Buffalo Bill and a brown horse rearing up, Chief Thunderbird and horse Northwind, Cochise with a pinto horse, Jim Bowie and horse Blaze, Davey Crockett, General George Armstrong Custer rider and his prancing horse Bugler, General George Washington and horse Ajax, General Robert E. Lee, and horse Traveler.
In 1988 Hartland Plastics reproduced the baseball player figures, marked with a 25 inside a circle on the back below the figures belt, as 25th anniversary editions.
