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Major Albert Smalley – inventor of the elder pith float?

Posted on by Matt Daymond
19
Dec

Within the remarkable Peter Wheat collection—much of which has yet to be catalogued—are a number of fascinating elder pith floats made by Major Albert Smalley. Peter Wheat has written extensively about both these floats and Smalley himself, in Angling magazine and in The Pelham Manual of River Coarse Fishing. The assertion that Major Smalley was the inventor of […]

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Rare additions to our developing Art section

Posted on by Matt Daymond
(post) Rare additions to our developing Art section
17
Sep

Signed Watercolour of BEECHMERE POOL. (16” by 12 ¾” Framed)    Maurice Ingham (The Carp Catchers’ Club, The Golden Scale Club)      Annotated on the rear; “Watercolour of BEECHMERE POOL, near DREWSTEIGNTON in DEVON, by Maurice Ingham.   Painted towards the end of 1996 or at the beginning of 1997, for Peter Wheat from a […]

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Celebrating ‘BB’: Rare Artworks from the Peter Wheat Collection

Posted on by Matt Daymond
(post) Celebrating ‘BB’: Rare Artworks from the Peter Wheat Collection
10
Sep

Following the successful launch of the cased fish from the Peter Wheat collection we are ready to start listing some of the amazing artworks. Curated over a lifetime there are some amazing and highly desirable items from the likes of Denys Watkins-Pitchford, Bernard Venables, David Carl Forbes,  John Searl and Maurice Ingham. Today we will […]

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The Peter Wheat Collection….It’s Harvest Time

Posted on by Matt Daymond
27
Aug

  What with holidays and a record sales period we are now ready to commence the sale of the Peter Wheat Collection of fishing tackle (rods, reels, floats, lures, etc.), cased fish, Denys Watkins Pritchard (BB) original paintings and scraperboards and a plethora of angling memorabilia. Many items originating from angling legends such as Richard […]

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In ‘case’ you were wondering… The Peter Wheat collection keeps getting better

Posted on by Matt Daymond
(post) In 'case' you were wondering… The Peter Wheat collection keeps getting better
30
Jul

I had a call to visit Peter Wheat last week the day before he went into to a nursing home. I helped him clear his flat and came away with another car full of interesting items from his collection. A few special items stayed with Peter. We now have close to 1000 PW items across […]

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Fishing with History: Grass Carp on Peter Wheat’s Fishing Tackle

Posted on by Matt Daymond
(post) Fishing with History: Grass Carp on Peter Wheat’s Fishing Tackle
16
Jul

  This weekend brought a truly special evening of fishing.  I’d been photographing the Peter Wheat collection all weekend and couldn’t resist taking some of it for a trial. A nearby lake provided the setting and I tackled up with one of Peter’s favourite rods, a green fibreglass Avonmaster and a Mitchell 300 fixed spool […]

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The History of Angling…….In Medals and Badges

Posted on by Richard Hewitt
(post) The History of Angling…….In Medals and Badges
25
Jun

As we continue to delve into the Aladdin’s cave of Peter Wheat’s Fishing Collection, we find a plethora of fascinating treasures. We have just discovered, for example, various silver fob medals given as awards by Angling Clubs for catches of specimen fish. Notable amongst these are silver medals awarded by The Highbury Angling Society of […]

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