Recently my grandad gave me a fishing reel to sell on the internet so we could share the profits even though im guessing it probably wont make much more over £10.
Does anyone have a rough idea how much I would make for this?
Its a very old Olympic MAGNUM which is probbably older than the 1960's. It's a very unusual design. It is a freshwater fishing reel in new condition, fixed spool and drag control. It is dark green in colour.
Olympic reels were made in Japan (even pre-war) - their reels of this vintage were typically reverse engineered copies of American- and British-made reels. I sold a NIB Shannondoa (that's the way they spelled it) that was a dead-on copy of a Pflueger 1498. This same fly reel was sold as Hurricaine and Olympic. Their older reels included sidecasters, centrepins, and pretty good copies of Seminoles.
Yours is a late (60s-70s) spincast reel, basically a copy of a Johnson or ABU. If it was the ABU, it might be worth 10 GBP. It looks to be in very nice shape.
neap38, there must be a model number on it somewhere, with out that # its hard to say as your pics are destorted, My factory repair books may have it in them , as ron said its a take off of a american johnson and that color in Us is not that unusual. reply as to all markings and modle #s , I will atempt to find a common ground price, also codition is EVERYTHING, do you have the box or other paper work fo it? that will add to the price, Advise as too all items respectfuly Col. milton lorens aka SWIM JIG your ohio conection
Ron Mc wrote:I sold a NIB Shannondoa (that's the way they spelled it) that was a dead-on copy of a Pflueger 1498. This same fly reel was sold as Hurricaine and Olympic.
sorry to bring this up again, I just saw another Olympic on ebay with a Sears label.
neap38, there must be a model number on it somewhere, with out that # its hard to say as your pics are destorted, My factory repair books may have it in them , as ron said its a take off of a american johnson and that color in Us is not that unusual. reply as to all markings and modle #s , I will atempt to find a common ground price, also codition is EVERYTHING, do you have the box or other paper work fo it? that will add to the price, Advise as too all items respectfuly Col. milton lorens aka SWIM JIG your ohio conection
