The Allcock’s Duplex reel is probably one of the simplest of all ideas. On the surface it’s to convert a reel from left to right hand wind, or is it? Allcock’s in association with a Mr B J Wakeflied of Plymouth jointly sealed a Patent on May 10th 1932. The production reel became the Allcock’s Duplex […]
Tag Archives: threadline
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Sep
That’s right vintage tackle lovers, this is in fact a Chippindale reel, not a Chippendale chair we are talking about here. The beautiful all-brass threadline spinning reel below is based on the original Model 1 Chippindale Patent 1909 reel – with differences! The original Chippindale reel as seen in this book extract below, was a […]
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Sep
Sep
When I wrote the first article on the Allcock-Stanley threadline reel a couple of weeks ago I thought I had seen them all – wrong! In a collection we are currently selling, these two ‘Stanley-esque’ threadline fishing reels turned up. Similar in size and principle to the original Stanley reels, they are amazing to look at and […]
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The Allcock Stanley Threadline spinning reel, the Morris Minor of spinning reels by a true Brit. By John Stephenson. Small in stature, big in ideas, Walter Stanley was a force to be reckoned with in fishing tackle design. Around the turn of the century many new patent inventions hit the fishing reel market, c. 1900 […]