{"id":216,"date":"2013-09-02T21:11:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T21:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/?p=216"},"modified":"2013-09-19T23:56:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T23:56:04","slug":"john-steed-sword-stick-lone-star-die-cast-machine-tools-ltd-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/john-steed-sword-stick-lone-star-die-cast-machine-tools-ltd-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"The Avengers &#8211; John Steed Sword Stick   Lone Star (Die-Cast Machine Tools Ltd.) 1966"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sword-stick-header-card-better.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-538 alignleft\" style=\"width: 241px;\" alt=\"Sword stick header card better\" src=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sword-stick-header-card-better-300x256.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5648.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-814 alignright\" alt=\"_MG_5648\" src=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5648-113x300.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Plastic Swordstick, could also be used as a water pistol (!?!). To quote the Lone Star catalogue for 1966, &#8220;This has tremendous play value. All plastic \u2014 a &#8216;Cane handle walking stick&#8217; that is really a sword in a scabbard. The ferrule or tip has a slight recess (for corks) with a pinhole (for water). The sword is fitted with a safety tip which acts as a washer which is the secret behind the cork firing and water squirting features in the stick!!&#8221; Well that should explain it all. (As for me I&#8217;m still none the wiser.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5654.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-820\" style=\"width: 132px;\" alt=\"_MG_5654\" src=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5654-300x195.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5653.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-819\" style=\"width: 143px;\" alt=\"_MG_5653\" src=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5653-300x187.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-816\" style=\"width: 134px;\" alt=\"_MG_5650\" src=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5650-300x199.jpg\" width=\"138\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5649.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-815\" style=\"width: 86px;\" alt=\"_MG_5649\" src=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5649-286x300.jpg\" width=\"82\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5652.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-818\" style=\"width: 121px;\" alt=\"_MG_5652\" src=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5652-300x203.jpg\" width=\"122\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-817\" style=\"width: 81px;\" alt=\"_MG_5651\" src=\"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_5651-300x300.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic Swordstick, could also be used as a water pistol (!?!). To quote the Lone Star catalogue for 1966, &#8220;This has tremendous play value. All plastic \u2014 a &#8216;Cane handle walking stick&#8217; that is really a sword in a scabbard. The ferrule or tip has a slight recess (for corks) with a pinhole (for water). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/john-steed-sword-stick-lone-star-die-cast-machine-tools-ltd-1966\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Avengers &#8211; John Steed Sword Stick   Lone Star (Die-Cast Machine Tools Ltd.) 1966<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-avengers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}