Deb, you never cease to amaze me. mark.....
From: "Deborah Duran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [VFB] Box of hooks.... Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:57:16 -0500
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
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>Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:50:47 -0500
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>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
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