-- Collezionisti Antiche Attrezzature da Pesca (ANTIPES)---
He sent me this great picture of himself in front of his spinning reel display. Wow! In his hand he is holding what he describes as a very rare "Bermuda 100" reel, produced in Turin in Italy but designed for the US market. Sergio says this is the only known specimen.
Sergio pointed out a very informative menu on the ANTIPES website that lists Italian spinning reel makers along with corresponding reel data. It looks much like our own Fishing Reel Research effort so I decided to add a link to that page on our FRR Reel Makers site. Why reinvent the wheel? I am collaborating with Sergio to verify their list of known Italian reel makers in order to post that as a separate editable list of names on our FRR site. Then all ORCA members can add information and pictures from their own collection, hopefully expanding the global knowledge of Italian made fishing reels.
The reaction has been very positive and ANTIPES has just published a promotional page for ORCA membership, encouraging Italian collectors to join ORCA. If you use Google Chrome or some other browser with translation capability you may be able to read this more easily unless you already know Italian-
http://www.antipes.it/pag_ORCA_collaborazione.html
