Trowbridge Salmon Reel

[Paul M]

My Father's Day find at a Sunday antique market- An immense antique brass and ebonite salmon reel marked Trowbridge Boston. The oil cap is removable on this constant check, plate wind reel. The backplate and rims are ebonite protected by brass and have no cracks. The foot is filed and will benefit from some smoothing. I'm looking forward to cleaning this up and trying to figure out the actual maker. My initial gut feeling is that it is British.

[Paul M]

Looks different now. It is also much lighter since I stripped off a few pounds of steel wire, copper wire and 2 types of backing- and the spool was only half full!

I left the shaved foot as is and will see if I happen to have a replacement among my accumulation of platewind reels.

The huge 4 1/2" diameter rubber sideplate with its 3 scribe lines, fixed clicker-spring pins and contours were a challenge to polish but it came out pretty well. I didn't have to repair it at all. The brass faceplate had a few small pits and scratches that I decided to buff out.

Mechanically it is ready to fish once again.

[Reel Addictive]

Paul - Very nice as usual. Great job with the cleaning. Trowbridge reels always seem to bring more than some of their counterparts. On the bay they seem to bring a premium (so someone must have a stellar collection by now).

Must be some proud Bostonians out there. Thanks for posting.

William

[Paul M]

Thanks William!