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Always liked this one.
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Here's a Heddon trolling reel that's almost never seen, especially with the original box. The No.30 "Winona Reel" or the No.30 "Great Lakes" (Heddon referred to them both ways). Made for only a couple years before the war, it was never popular with fisherman (which is another reason I like it!)
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A very nice and early Montague City Rod Co. No.4 "Chief" with its original chimney box. Please don't mention anything about motorcycle companies.
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Here are 3 I like. Check out my site to see what I have. The Penn 49 is a 1938 reel and was not in the Penn catalogs until 1939.
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Mark and Brian - Those are great reels, thanks for sharing. :D I marvel at how much I am drawn to a really nice reel box. Maybe even more than the reel sometimes (weird). We just won't ever have as much emphasis placed on packaging as we did during times past.

Maybe I'll just collect reel boxes.

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William, I love the original packaging, too. Most of which didn't survive.

Here's a nice, very early Wm. Shakespeare Jr. Co. "No.3 - Style B" Twin Screw level-wind with the original chamois-lined leather case (with labeled instructions for the "Twin Screw" re-assembly) and original chamois bag. Carries the S/N 1186, which dates the reel to 1904-1905 and possibly as late as 1906 (per Robyn Summerlin).
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Awesome reels & boxes, Brian. Those are seldom seen boxed.

Here's a "Royal" model from Simmon's Hardware I've shown before. One of my favorite boxes.
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Here's a tough combo...passed down from the Man Cave of Bad Bob Miller!

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My favorite tournament reel. Louis Darling/Ben Flegel designed Redifor. Also pictured Darling book on tournament casting and his first place cup in 1909 at the NY Anglers Club.
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Doesn't get much better than the last two. Thank you John & John.

Shown here on the left, a somewhat common Model 1918 Shakespeare No.1961 "Superior" level-wind. However, not so common when found in its original box (center). On the right, a well-used but very scarce Model 1918 Shakespeare No.1963LH "Ideal" LEFT-HANDED level-wind. Hard to see, but it has blue jeweled oil caps. I doubt I can live long enough to find the correctly marked box for this one.
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One of the last Shakespeare "Style B" Twin Screw level-winds, this one a jeweled Model 1918 and mounted on a 1928 Heddon No.40 bait rod. The rod was a Special Order (with a detachable handle & w/o the foregrip) and remains the only example known to exist. There were so many different kinds of Model 1918 reels offered by Shakespeare from 1918-1921, that I found it to be a great area to collect.
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An early (1905-1915?) Pflueger Trout reel that I recently picked up. 2-1/4" diameter with stationary clicker. Cleaned up nicely. Obviously a "trade" reel from Enterprise and one that was discussed a few a years ago in a thread that Dean started. Along with the wooden grip, they apparently came with either hard rubber or metal tail plates and stationary or adjustable clickers.
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A good example of this rather common Montague "Climax" that becomes much more desirable in its original chimney box.
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An uninteresting box...
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