These are the detailed pages designed to accompany items on show at Fly Fest Scotland 2018.
Ebenezer Creed Rod
Ebenezer Creed was one of the minor players in a cast of London tackle makers that had been slowly growing since the time of Izaak Walton. Creed worked out of an address in Wilderness Row in Clerkenwell from about 1839 to 1865, though he appeared in a Debtor’s Court in the city in 1842. To put Creed’s career in context, it is worth noting that Farlow’s was founded in 1840.
The rod is of six sections of varying length, with two tips. Almost all the sections are of Greenheart, with the exception of the tips, one of which appears to be Lancewood, but the other is made up of three strips of cane, glued and rounded. Ferrules are doweled and these and the reel seat are of brass, typical for UK made rods. The rod follows a pattern typical of many London-made rods, some of which had a hollow butt section in which the tips could be stored and bears a considerable resemblance to a rod owned by the artist JMW Turner in the collection of the Royal Academy.
The rod is of six sections of varying length, with two tips. Almost all the sections are of Greenheart, with the exception of the tips, one of which appears to be Lancewood, but the other is made up of three strips of cane, glued and rounded. Ferrules are doweled and these and the reel seat are of brass, typical for UK made rods. The rod follows a pattern typical of many London-made rods, some of which had a hollow butt section in which the tips could be stored and bears a considerable resemblance to a rod owned by the artist JMW Turner in the collection of the Royal Academy.