Unknown German Spinning reel?

[reelworks]

It's been a while since I posted here, and this is sort of off topic, but I was given an older ultralight reel today that looks to be most likely from the 1970's or so. It's been drivng me crazy all day trying to figure out who made this thing. The only idenification marks on it are the Made in West Germany on the reel foot, and the letters PMA on the inside of the side cover. I had at first thought it was a DAM Quick but a closer look has me wondering, it's not built like a Quick, it uses the same style mechanicals as an early Penn, but has a skirted quick release spool and an odd looking bail trip mechanism.
The most identifying feature is the body of the reel, it's cast to look like aligator skin or leather on each side. The side cover is held on by one screw, the only bearing is up front for the rotor, and thehandle is reversable, it uses an odd bayonette style cap on the oposite side of the handle to cover the other end of the handle shaft.
Someone did the wheel bearing grease trick to it, so I took it all apart to clean, but it looks really well built, especially for such a small reel. It maybe holds about 100yds of 4lb test line at best, the spool diameter is only about the size of a half dollar and very shallow. All internal parts are stainless steel other than the drive gear which is bronze, the case, rotor, spool and side cover are all aluminum, the only plastic part is the drag knob. It uses a multi disc drag as well.
If anyone has any idea who other than Quick was making reels then from Germany, I'd be interested to know what this may be.
It's an older reel, but by no means an antique, but looks to be a nice quality piece. There is no sign of any logo or name plate that may have fallen off, even the spool doesn't give a brand, just a series of numbers, like a scale or ruler around the skirt of the spool, and their not a decal, they're painted or anodized right on the spool which itself is anodized in black. I've dug through all of my old catalogs, magazines and online, but nothing, not even close. I pretty much ruled out all of the Quick models, the Microlite and 110 are both larger and very different. I also considered the fact that it may have been a store brand of some sorts? Any ideas?

[piscesman]

Can you post a picture? Would rule out guess-work. Also maybe you could contact Ben Wright, see member list. Would greatly improve your odds of determining the maker. Good Luck!
Kim cool-thumb

[FSREPAIR]

Hi reelworks, If you can post some pics of the reel here that would be most helpful. If you can't but can email some pics send them to me at
and I may be able to help you identify the reel. I have some European made spin reels including some from Germany with the alligator or crinkle type finish which was a common type of finish used from the 1950s into the 1970s. Randy

[reelworks]

Thanks to who ever sent me the following link,



it seems my first impression that it was a DAM Quick was right all along, just a model I haven't run across before. I appears that this is a Quick 1001, the link above is the same reel, problem is the only reference I find to these in either in German or Dutch. Makes me wonder how this got here assuming that they may have never been sold here?

[snoekjaeger]

Hi,
Are there any signs there was a label attached to the body ? A label that possibly has been removed or fallen off ?
On the other hand it's allways possible DAM made trade-reels for a distributor.
Jean-Paul

[reelworks]

There's no sign of a lable unless there was one on the spool or the bearing cap, I did find a pic of one that had a full spool label, but this one does have painted on numbers on the spool at least half way around, there is a mark that looks like maybe from glue on the spool. The bearing cap on the one I found online had the DAM logo on it. I am at this point assuming that the spool had the model and the bearing cap had the logo.
( The bearing cap that's on this one is plain, but it doesn't look original).