John Gland and I need a little help with a Meisselbach article we are writing to put with a Meisselbach Automatic display for the Houston ORCA National. We need a high resolution picture of page 2 and 3 from a # 26 1913/1914 Meisselbach catalog or pages 4 and 5, the same ad, from a #27 (I think) 1915/1916 Meissselbach catalog. The copies we have are very poor quality. These ads are identical except for the reel price ($3.50 verses $5.00) and include three 2 drawings, plus one picture of a gentleman fisherman in hip waders holding up a large fish. The fisherman picture is what does not show well in amy of our copies. Any one have a better copy or an original catalog we could get a high resolution picture from for our article? I am not sure if these two catalogs were from one of the two years listed or if they were a two year catalog as some of the tackle companies did occassionaly. I have seen some copies of the same catalog listed as either year. We have heard rumors that the gentlman fisherman in this ad is in fact the original Reel Geezer himself. Any help at this late date would truely be appreciated and at least worth a beer or your favorite beverage if attending the show. I look forward to seeing you all in Houston and thanks again for any help. Bill Land.
Bill, what's probably the same pic appears in Cat. #29, so maybe your chances of finding a usable copy improve. It may have been used throughout the mid-1910s. My copy is just another badly streaked photocopy.
Bill: When solicited for these catalog pages I did not understand that what you were mainly interested in was the fisherman. That same photo appears in the 1919 catalog. However, the review is for the "New Meisselbach Improved Automatic Reel. Maybe you could place the photo from the 1919 catalog in your presentation? I have an original 1919, and will send you a scan of the photo in a few minutes. We are leaving for Texas in about 1 hour.
Phil
The 1919 fisherman image Phil sent me should work great. I never thought of that, but did not have a great copy of it either. I do now. Thank both, Bill Land & John Gland.
you all in Houston and thanks again for any help. Bill Land. 
