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Great Grandpa's fishing lures....... PIC
William81
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My great grandfather was a Judge in South Dekota. He was an avid outdoorsman enjoying hunting, fishing and bird watching. I have several personal items of his and today I went though some fishing lures he owned and used..
I have the remains of his tacklebox which includes several used lures. At the present time I am trying to make up a couple shadow boxes to display them and to share them with other family members...
If you wish, share a family keepsake....
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Dang it! I just looked all over and can't put my hands on it right now. Refer to the " I'm so proud of myself" topic. Somewhere in dad's stuff is a new in the box Mercury Minnow just like this one;
It's only a quarter ounce of mercury that gives it all the lifelike action. What could go wrong!😁
I'll probably run on to it one of these days and will have forgotten why I was looking for it. Bob
Nice family airloome to display and pass on
A coworker I had bought sold and collected old fishing gear and lures
Amazing what some are worth
To me such items as yours
the sentimental value far out weighs money
Years ago I rented an old farm house from Karl White in the Luther, OK. area.
He has the world’s largest ‘lure’ collection, along with assorted fishing gear.
”In 1997, White paid the highest amount ever for a piece of fishing collectible when he bought a Snyder reel — the first casting reel made in America in the late 1830s — for $31,350. The commission fee pushed the cost to $34,200.”
He returned from a trip pulling an enclosed trailer, and gave me a shout. He opened the back and there was thin wooden boxes inside, stacked like slices of bread, several feet high, several feet long.
He ask if I had any idea what I was looking at ,,,,,, Nope ,,,,,,, It was Zane Grey’s lure collection.
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/columns/2013/04/27/karl-white-looking-for-a-place-in-history-for-his-5-million-fishing-collection/60972603007/
Ditch-runner, to me it's amazing what new lures sell for now. I can see where nowdays it'd be almost worthwhile to go fishing just to retrieve other peoples lost lures. I've got lots of old lures 40's/50's/60's like Williams81 all tangled up in a huge mess with the treble hooks hooking each other, way too dangerous for me to try to separating.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
They must have been pretty good, they were still being sold when I was a kid.
Love the lures, very nice
All the pics of this stuff is really cool, I like vintage items.