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JIMMY D
DonO wrote:
I agree too, Deb. Although I'm a big fan of cree and have a 'good' selection of cree necks and saddles, I also have a very nice selection of variants. I have a few bar gingers that are just beautiful. But my favorites now are the Speckled Champagne Badgers in the Hebert line. The coloration of the Hebet line is unique, with a brassy sheen in the champagnes. But the speckling of the fine-barred saddles and necks is what really catches everyone's eye. Matched up with speckled Cock d'Leon tail fibers and mottled brown wings, it's perfect for the speckled march brown mayflies. It's also great on soft hackle flies and palmered nymphs.
I have a question- maybe someone could answer. Almost 20 years ago, I had the chance to purchase part of an estate which consisted of 8 moving boxes of fly tying materials. I paid $150 and two 14/0 monster muddlers for the whole batch. Not a bad deal, as there were 2 jungle cock necks stashed in one of them (and a big bag of dyed pb). There was also a bag of about 30 necks. These, I was told, were some of the 'older' stuff in the collection. They were dyed rooster necks in every color of the rainbow, and some. Most were from white stock, but some were grizzly, and a couple were of the natural cree variant color like Tony's necks. They were individually contained in unsealed wax paper bags with green blotter-paper back-cards. The skins on many of them were still a bit greasy and a couple of the necks had been compromised by this oil. There were no markings or stamps or price tags on them, so I'm wondering if anyone knows who used to market necks like these say 40 years ago. Were they possibly a home-made batch, or did someone market them in such a way? There was no evidence that this tier was a dyer, so I assume they were purchased. The dry-fly feather portion consists of small streamer-like feathers, and then they just get larger to the giant streamer feathers at the rear portion, which have very long barbs. So is anyone familiar with these?
A curious mind just wants to know...
DonO
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