If there was ever a truly mad invention in the fishing reel game this is it. Mr J.G.A Kitchen designed a belt driven, free spool reel with a level wind device, getting his Patent application granted on January 30th1920. Patent 163,088 applies. In brief, it took two full pages to describe its function and form. […]
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Sep
Sep
One of the best tools any tackle collector can have is the now out of print reference book, To Catch A Fisherman by the late Jamie Maxtone-Graham, 2nd edition 1984. Allegedly all the fishing tackle patents compressed into one book, by name, Patent no. and application design. When I told him in 1986 I was […]
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Sep
Sep
Multum in Parvo is a Latin phrase that was used by Hardy’s to advertise their black japanned lure boxes. It translates as ‘Much into little’. No better phrase to describe this wood and brass side casting tournament-style reel then! Cleary designed on the Malloch principle, this reel has a spring indent twisting foot turning 360 […]
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Sep
Sep
We have just been contacted by Lasse Merkesda, of the Nordisk Fishing Tackle Shop in Oslo, Norway where a customer had brought in an old wooden reel to investigate its history. This is a Nottingham pattern English wood and brass starback reel. Probably made by either Slater of Newark or Heatons of Birmingham and dates c […]
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Sep
Sep
You never see one, then ten come along together! That’s the story of these weird reels we started writing about a few weeks ago. This particular reel I believe is engineer or scratch built. A very clever and imaginative person has devised this one, the twisting foot assembly I’m sure was born from an old nursery […]
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Aug
Aug
By John Stephenson The Saltssar Sea Fishing Reel is the reel that started me on my collecting journey 35 years ago. It was given to me by an elderly chap as a thank you for my efforts re-building his old cane rod. Thinking both items were worth a fortune, I gave them both the respect they deserved. […]
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The Hardy Barton Dry Fly Fishing Reel – a rare reel for the collector
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Jul
Jul
We thought we would share this lovely Hardy Barton Dry Fly Reel with you which is a rare little reel, especially when in original condition like this one we have in stock at the moment (apologies if it has already sold by the time you read this!) It is one of only 109 reels made […]