Yes, you are correct. I have dealt with Mark Hammet in the past when his company Fishing Matters brought back the Partridge of Redditch name from Mustad. However, the majority of Partridge hooks as far as I know are made for them by Mustad in China.
See: http://www.totalflyfisher.com/news/item/1178-partridge-acquires-cox-rawle <http://www.totalflyfisher.com/news/item/1178-partridge-acquires-cox-rawle> I am fairly certain that Gaelic Supreme fly hooks were also made by Sprite when Vince Green was still making hooks. www.belvoirdale.com (pronounced beaver dale) used to sell Gaelic Supreme fly hooks and some models were favoured by Mike Martinek. Neville (Nev) Gosling The older I get, the better I was! > On Nov 23, 2014, at 7:49 PM, Peggy Brenner <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" >>> group. >>> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" >> group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en >> >> VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "VFB Mail" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Peggy Brenner > President IWFF > http://SixSistersFlybox.pbandj.us > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. 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