I can add a little more to this. Partridge of Redditch was bought from
Mustad by Mark Hammet, with a company called fishing matters in the UK.
And last year he bought the last of the Sprite hook making materials
and machinery. The balance of the sprite hooks have been repackaged and
are available at Dette Flies in the Catskills.
Peggy
On 11/21/2014 2:30 PM, Neville Gosling wrote:
Hi Mike:
I remember the firm of "Edgar Sealy & Sons" & got the following from the
web - although I don't think that it is 100% accurate. I could be wrong
but I don't think that they continued making hooks up to 1981. I suspect
that the hook making ceased long before that.
/ "Edgar Sealy & Sons started as a hook-maker some time around 1930, and
are listed in the Kelly's Directory of 1932 at Brookhill Works, Hewell
Road, Redditch."
"At their peak in the 1950s, they were employing around 100 people, but
they were taken over by Dunlop Sports in 1960, and became more of a
distributor than manufacturer, though they continued making hooks until
they closed the factory and moved to Falmouth in 1981."/
/"Some of their machinery was bought by Vince Green, and is still used
in the manufacture of Sprite hooks." /
Not sure of status of Sprite now. Vince Green had a stroke and closed
the business and shortly after he passed away. Someone has subsequently
tried to resurrect Sprite.
I went for a tour of the Partridge Factory in Redditch in 1985. At that
time, Partridge already had some of the hook making machinery that
formerly belonged to Sealy.
As far as I know, Edgar Sealy & Sons was the first company to produce
the "Octopus" style of hooks which is popular today
"Their reels were all made by J. W. Young and at one time were Young's
main distributor." I have one of their reels in almost mint boxed condition.
As I recall, there was also a Bernard Sealy involved in the fishing
tackle industry in the UK but I was unable to find any reference to them.
Neville (Nev) Gosling
On Nov 20, 2014, at 6:51 PM, Mike Bliss <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I am organizing my tying materials. Years ago I picked up several
boxes of Edgar Sealey & Sons hooks. One box I am not sure what they
are exactly. The number is S3008. I don’t have a book that can tell
me what they are. It looks like a standard wet fly hook. Any help
out there? Are they worth anything other than for the hook?
Mike
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