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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When Gothenburg Called: The Story of an Extraordinary Collection
19
Nov
Nov
Every day I scan through the various collections offered to us via our online “Sell to Us” forms. Much of it is fairly routine, but one recent submission from Gothenburg immediately caught my imagination: “Would you be interested in purchasing 40 Hardy and Bruce & Walker rods, 40 Hardy reels including Perfects and Gold Sovereigns, […]
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Hardy Gold Sovereign Reels – Still Reigning Supreme
12
Nov
Nov
Few modern Hardy reels have achieved the same cult following as the Gold Sovereign series. First introduced in the late 1980s and running through the 1990s, these reels represented Hardy’s dedication to precision engineering and luxury finish at a time when traditional craftsmanship was meeting modern technology. Available in both trout and salmon sizes, the […]
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Hardy carved salmon migrate from HQ
24
Sep
Sep
Two Salmon and A C. Farlow cased Pike. It has been a great couple of weeks for our Art and Cased Fish Sections. Several Cooper/Griggs fish have been sold and we have parted with the two magnificent Hardy carved salmon in a private sale. A follow up to one of our newsletters led to the […]
17
Sep
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
10
Sep
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 […]
27
Aug
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
30
Jul
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 […]
11
Feb
Feb
Regular visitors to our site may well have noticed we have the best selection of quality, pre-owned tackle, ever, in our history. Dave is being kept very busy with sales but also with collectors monetising at least part of their collections and/or trading up to improve their collections. This is good for all of us […]
31
Aug
Aug
Thomas Turner are proud to announce the sale of an extremely significant and historically important collection of Hardy reels. The collection has been curated over a lifetime and contains extremely rare and highly sought after reels such as a 2.5 inch 1891 original Perfect, 4 inch 1892 all brass Perfect and many more that very […]