This is the patent for a palm-brake issued to Cummins of Bishop Auckland in 1896.
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This is a patent document relating to a Facebook query I came across, seems a useful and interesting document. Will be posting more real/reel(!) news here soon!
Sharpe's of Aberdeen have long been famous for their "Scottie" range of impregnated cane rods. What some people don't know is that these rods carried codes indicating the date of manufacture. There is a document available on the current Sharpe's website here but it is not the easiest of things to decipher, so a number of years ago I made a chart which gives codes and their corresponding month and year.
Hope you all find it useful!
Just a short video to let you all see how the place looks these days, hope you enjoy t!. My previous post pointed you towards the story of a small Robert Turnbull reel that had been the property of a decorated WW1 airman. Soon after I had written that story, a further named reel appeared, again with just enough clues to piece together its remarkable STORY...
...with a Story to TellHave a look at our latest acquisition, an unremarkable Robert Turnbull reel with a remarkable story, read it HERE
Didn't See That Coming...Some of you may remember my "Museum Assistant" our tortoiseshell cat, Millie. Millie also had an adopted brother called Socks who appeared in our garden looking very thin and eating the bread we had put out for the birds. After much persuasion and negotiation with Millie, he was allowed to move in and both of them became important in our lives, and in each others. Just a week after my last post in this blog, on Twelfth Night we lost Socks, and almost exactly 24 hours later my little Museum Assistant died as well. Any of you that don't have pets might find it hard to understand why this should cause a break in the activities of the Museum, but for quite a while I didn't feel much like doing anything, and then of course, everything changed, and we were plunged into lockdown with all its attendant uncertainties.
More than a year on, and I am pleased to say things at Whiteadder's Fly Fishing Museum are slowly returning to normal. New acquisitions are coming in with their own stories to tell so watch this space, stay safe and be kind to each other... Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All!I can't believe it's been nearly two months since my last post here, but it's been a busy time as it is almost for everyone with the Hallowe'en, Black Friday and the run up to Christmas. Things in the Museum have not been idle either with a lot of new information coming in about early rods. This is thanks to Jeff Hatton, otherwise known as "Gnome", owner and curator of "Gnome's Travelling Rod Show" - the GTRS. Jeff is distinguished by being the only author of a book describing the development of rods from some of the earliest known examples to the Golden Age of rod making. "Rod Crafting" has been a key reference for many years but Jeff has now expanded his offering to a subscription series of DVD's offering high-definition videos of the rods in his collection. WVFFM now has the first two in the series and the material has already made it necessary to re-examine some of the rods in WVFFM. It's going to mean quite a bit of updating to the Early British Rods section on the site, so I will try to keep you posted as the new information is applied.
Loads to look forward to in 2020 with the usual round of auctions. Once again WVFFM will be appearing at the Scottish Fly Fair at the Stirling Court hotel in March, and again I'll keep you all posted on the details. Happy New Year from WVFFM... ...I Think So!My last entry was a bit late, as I explained, because I was waiting for something to arrive...  I have been wanting one of these for as long as I have known about them. This is a Bronze Medal awarded by the jury of the 1883 International Fisheries Exhibition. Aside from representing an important landmark in the story of fishing tackle, the medal was designed by L C Wyon, one of the leading coin designers and die-cutters of the nineteenth century. The medal was accompanied by a few other objects of interest, and I plan to include them in an article about the London Trade Exhibitions, - just need to do a bit more research!
Hope you like this as much as I do. ...with the News this MonthEach year there are auctions of vintage fishing tackle hosted by two companies. John Mullock has at least one fishing sale each year and Neil Freeman of Angling Auctions has an other, usually slightly later in the year. This year was no exception, with John's sale in September and Neil following on at the beginning of October. WVFFM secured lots in both sales, and I have waited for confirmation of this before posting this Month's News. The items concerned will be featured in my next News post...as soon as they have all arrived!!
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