Mike Jackson’s Hartland Photos:
Purple and Pink Pants Figures

Text & Photographs Copyright Mike Jackson 1998-2009


Hartland used Purple on a few Dale Evans and Pink on Annie Oakley. Later, Stevens Plastics used a raspberry/plum color on their version of Dale Evans. These colors are not particularly light fast and have a tendency to fade in the sun and light. Finding them in rich, deep colors is fairly difficult.

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.

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.

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.

If you have any other Cowgirl figure variation not shown here, check out the Non-Hartlands page containing Lido and Breyer versions.