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Hartland Cowgirls
come in only three molds but in several colors. The first mold
was the early Cowgirl, commonly called the Champ Cowgirl since
it was often paired with the early Champ style Cowboy. The Dale
Evans mold was made later and replaced the earlier Cowgirl, but
keeping her number. Annie Oakley was the third mold. |
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 Cowgirl #802
The Jade Green Cowgirl is probably the first one Hartland made
and is the hardest of them to find. She may have been paired
with any number of colors of Champ style horses, but I am fairly
certain she did come on a Palomino.
Mold Mark:
None |
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 Cowgirl #802
The Red and White Cowgirl is more common but probably about equal
to the olive green version below. She has one gun and can ride
a variety of colors of Champ style horses.
A single version of this figure with the red top and olive
green bottoms is known to exist (factory paint anyway) in on
display in the Roy Rogers Museum in California.
Mold Mark: None |
 Early Green Dale Evans #802DE
The earliest Dale Evans used the Cowgirl molds and were just
given a new olive green outfit. They were paired with a Dunn
and Brown Champ style horse and used the same cardboard shipping
box, but DE was added to the end of the number. She can also
be found on a Chubby horse with unmolded bridle which has a painted
bridle instead. Within a period of time, this figure was replaced
with the Dale figure below. With as many of these pieces as there
are around, that must have taken a while.
Mold Mark: None |
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 Green Dale Evans #802 (DE)
This if the official Dale Evans figure, molded after her likeness.
She got the new brown saddle (same mold as the Clayton Moore
Lone Ranger) and the new Chubby style Dunn horse with the bridle
but kept the old number. Some sets were shipped in the earlier
cardboard boxes but she eventually did get a new colorized box
which shows her and Roy Rogers. She has one pistol, usually silver.
Mold Marks
©Hartland Plastics, Inc. on the back of the
right sleeve. |
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 Purple Dale Evans #802
After many years of not knowing, we finally located a catalog
showing a Purple Dale from 1958. It appears the only kept that
color for that year, or maybe it was a special run, because she
was back in her normal green outfit in the 1959 Hartland Horseman
dealer catalog. The color scheme is much harder to find than
the green one.
Mold Mark
©Hartland Plastics, Inc. on the back of the
right sleeve. |
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 Stevens Plastics Dale Evans
This set was recast by Stevens Plastics in 1993 using the same
molds as Hartland did earlier. I don't know if they chose the
raspberry/plum color trying to imitate the old color or just
changed to be different, but as you can see, it is different.
This figure is about 1/4" taller than the older ones.
Mold Mark
©Hartland Plastics, Inc. on the back of the
right sleeve. |
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 Annie Oakley #823
Annie Oakley is quite a bit harder to find than some Hartland
sets and is very difficult to find in the deep pink color shown
here. Most have faded in the pink or yellowed in the white. She
has one silver pistol and a special hat with a string laced through
it so the hat can ride on her back as seen in the TV show.
Mold Mark
©Hartland Plastics, Inc. on the back of the
left cuff of her sleeve. |
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If you have any other Cowgirl
figure variation not shown here,
check out the Non-Hartlands page containing Lido and Breyer versions. |
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