Mark I finally got a copy of Hale and Kelson. Hale is great!! I got the second edition so I have all of the dressings in the back. I found a single JC eye pressed between the pages of the book left from a previous owner, which puzzled me. I finally decided that it may be that it was the only example of one he had. Maybe someone gifted it to him to use as a reference. They're so common place now we take them for granted. If only a feather could talk. The silk gut is dyed.. I knew that would get you. :) Iain ... One of these hooks is a double with a piggy back! I also have two that look like precursors to the Waddington Shank. They have a ring eye holding the treble with a long single wire and a return eye on the end. One hook is labeled from an antique dealer Bartleet and Harrison 1880. There's lots of fun in this box. Deb
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mark romero Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 6:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [VFB] Box of hooks.... Deb, i want details, privately. Domo, mark >From: "Deborah Duran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: [VFB] Box of hooks.... >Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:50:47 -0500 > > >I saw a dealer friend at the last show I went to that mentioned to me that >he had some old gut and hooks that he would dig up for me. I had forgotten >about it and I stopped in to see him at the show today to say hello and see >if he had any good books for me. He pulled out some old gut casts and some >braided casts and then pulled out an old tin box of hooks. >I'm in heaven!!! I left early to drive home and made it through >Providence >before the blizzard started. Once I got home I must have dug through this >hook box three times already looking at every hook. My husband couldn't >take it any more so he went to bed. I guess I've got the bug pretty bad >when I get this excited about a box of hooks! :) I love old hooks! >Deb > >www.uftri.com > > >
