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Pricing and Condition The tackle advertised here is
described as accurately as possible. The prices vary according to condition,
rarity, collectability, and history. They are hopefully all fair. All
restored rods have required a great many hours of highly skilled work. All materials
used are of the highest quality. Goods marked SOLD (in italics) have been
left on the list to help buyers establish recent past values. |
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Vintage versus new Modern cane rods are often quite
well made. They are also very expensive, and sometimes subject to uncertain
delivery schedules that can extend to a year or more. For anyone with the
time and the money they offer a certain route to ownership. Others will
prefer genuine vintage tackle, in the same way that some prefer vintage cars
to modern reproductions. Vintage, or used tackle, is
often available for immediate delivery, and it usually costs less than half
the price of new. Vintage tackle also has that indefinable, but nevertheless
real, link with a gentler, and possibly better, age of angling. |
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Why You Might Buy Here? Some might regard web sourcing
with suspicion. It certainly would be preferable if we could still enjoy extended
deliberation, and much soul searching, in proper 1950’s style tackle shops.
However, such tackle shops, smelling of linseed oil, are a rarity these days, and understandably,
hard-pressed modern rod makers have little time to spare for chatters and
browsers. Please mail us with your
particular requirements. There is always considerable further stock in the
restoration queue. |
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There are now very few remaining sources of really good vintage
British fishing tackle. Whether or not there is anything of interest to you in the for
sale lists, this web site will at least allow enthusiasts to gauge what is
available, and what they might have to pay for the tackle they need. |
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A Source for Traditionalist Anglers |
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Getting in Touch Initially, for security reasons,
all correspondence is via email. Viewing is by arrangement. |
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Getting Around This Site This is a ‘enthusiast-made’
site. A lot of effort has gone into making it user-friendly with hyperlinks
to specific pages: all the same, you might also find your browser’s ‘back and
forward’ buttons useful/essential. Please forgive the imperfections. |
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