FISHING COLLECTIBLES. By Russell E. Lewis.

2005 1st edition. 4to paperback (210 x 276mm). Pp351 + 1pp ads. Colour photographs throughout.

"Fishing lures are the holy grail for many. But smart collectors have quietly stockpiled increasingly valuable and overlooked fishing treasures: rods, reels, tackle boxes, creels, even minnow buckets and bobbers. Tackle is becoming the angler's hot collectible." Well illustrated with over 2,000 good colour photographs of all of the above-mentioned items of fishing tackle, mostly from American manufacturers. Contents include:- Collectible rods - Recent rod sales data; Bamboo rods; Glass rods; Ice rods, jigging sticks and tip-ups; Metal rods; Pack and compact rods; Collectible reels - Recent reel sales data; Airex; Abu Ambassadeur; Bullard and Gormley Co; Bronson Reel Co; Carleton Reels; English Reels; Gayle Reels; Great Lakes Reels; Hawthorne (Ward's); Heddon; Hendryx; Horrocks-Ibbotson (H-I); Hurd; Jamison; Japanese Reels; J.C. Higgins; Johnson Reels; Kalamazoo Tackle Co; Kopf Patent; Langley Corp. Reels; Lawson Machine Works; Marc; Martin Auto Fish Reel Co; Meek Reels; Meisselbach Reels; Montague Reels; Ocean City Mfg. Co; Penn Reels; Perrine; Pflueger (Enterprise Manufacturing Co); Precisionbilt (Aerco); Ranger Reels; Record; Shakespeare Company; South Bend Bait Co; Staro Reel; Union Hardware Co; Vom Hofe Reels (Edward and Julius); Weber of Stevens Point; Winchester (former Hendryx); Wright and McGill; Yale; Zebco; Creels; Buckets, traps and boxes - Minnow buckets, traps and bait containers; Tackle boxes; More - Awards, badges, fobs, etc; Fishing licenses; Miscellaneous paper items; Nets, gaffs, blunts and spears; Miscellaneous items; Bobbers and floats; Line spools.