Montgomery Wards Model 33

[mark bumgarner]

Saw this reel while browsing e-bay, I do not see it on the Montgomery Wards Reel List so check it out and see if you can identify maker and we can add it to the list. I don't know who edits the list but one of you, Mark Williams, will know. Has a very unusual foot. Click the link below to view.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/196177995764

[Paul Roberts]

Ocean City? Penn??

[mark bumgarner]

Well for $12, I just bought this reel to get a better look. Turns out it was made by Shakespeare. It is very similar to the Shakespeare Acme 1907, listed in Shakespeare's 1933 catalog. I think the "Wards 33" name may also imply it was manufactured in 1933, as the "Wards 34" appears in the Montgomery Wards 1934 catalog.




Still have not heard if anyone is carrying on the editing of the Wards reels list Robert Ellis and Mark Williams were working on?

[Biggamereels1988]

Very cool reel! I would have snagged that as well.