A Reel Puzzler

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Eric J
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A Reel Puzzler

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I just bought this reel from the March Marketplace.
Listed as a Marrya but of course it’s a Marryat, and I thought maybe the T had just rubbed off. But the letters and numbers are etched or engraved into the metal and there never was a T. The pictures also didn’t show a serial number in the normal place on the foot opposite “MADE IN JAPAN”.
I knew it was an early one because it has the drag index dots that the later ones didn’t have, and the model designation has small letters and a big number and the later ones are all one size. Opening it up, it is marked “31” on the inside frame.
Did the Japanese craftsmen get the name wrong? Was this a pre-production test sample?
It’s a little sweetheart and no bigger than a button at 2-11/16”.

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