Mike Jackson’s Hartland Photos:
Cochise & Accessories

Text & Photographs Copyright Mike Jackson 1998-2008
Cochise:#816
There aren’t a lot of variations on this set. The show only lasted a few years, but the Cochise set stayed in production all the way into 1961 and is now a farily common set. In the later years, you might have received a brown pistol instead of a silver one, but that’s about the end of the possible variations. Tom Jeffords was his TV counterpart, but his set was not as popular and was not sold as long as Cochise.
The Cochise set shipped with a black and white pinto with a full wavy tail as shown above. To my knowledge, it is his only horse variation, however you might run across the smoother tailed version which was probably originally shipped with a Bill Longley.
This set is the only horse and rider set without a hat or at least an additional feather.

Number Show
Name		 Star’s
Name		 Figure’s
Name		 Studio Show
Years		 Brochure
Years
816 Broken
Arrow		 Michael
Ansara		 Cochise ABC
20th Century
Fox		 1956-
1958		 1957-1961

Some information in this chart from “Total Television” by Alex McNeil 1996, 4th Edition

Mold Mark
Cochise: “©Hartland Plastics, Inc.” on the back of the left sleeve.
The Cochise Rifle has two hooks to allow the collector to wrap a rubber band around them to help hold the rifle in the figure’s hand.
Cochise Weapons:
Like many of the brown rifles, this one varied quite a bit in color from almost orange to dark brown. Based on early Hartland photos, it appears to have been produced to go with early Chief Thunderbirds in white, shown below, but was the only rifle used by Cochise and no other figure. Most sets probably had a silver pistol, however some of the later sets might have had a brown one.

Cochise Saddle:
Cochise is the only figure to get this saddle. He is a fairly common set but due to the fragile nature of all the McClellan saddles, many have been broken creating a demand for them. This saddle is similar to the Crocket and Bowies saddles, but this one lacks the molded in bedroll and the stirrups are slightly different.

 

The Cochise Box & Tags are basically identacal to the Jeffords box and tag, except for the copy changes. Cochise was shown with the black and white pinto with the white tail in the brochures. I recently purchase a Christmas catalog with the same horse, however the set shipped with a pinto with different markings and a black tail. In the first brochures of 1957, Cochise was shown in the brochures as a line drawing in black and white.