Multi-joint Aspindale!!

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Multi-joint Aspindale!!

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Just found a multi-joint Aspindale Dalesman rod - well it has black/gold badge - but I think the rod is Japanese!!

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I also saw this item and it is most definitely a fake. It was mass produced in Japan and sold in Woolies in the early 1960's. Just check out the very cheap tin ferrules, Aspindales would never have used such rubbish. The handle is made to reverse and then it becomes a fly fishing rod.Very common and very cheap.
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Just show how careful the starter collector needs to be - in fact anyone!

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Fredline wrote: Wed May 09, 2018 11:02 am I also saw this item and it is most definitely a fake. It was mass produced in Japan and sold in Woolies in the early 1960's. Just check out the very cheap tin ferrules, Aspindales would never have used such rubbish. The handle is made to reverse and then it becomes a fly fishing rod.Very common and very cheap.
Out of interest Fredline, do you think the process here is that Woolies imported cheap but perfectly legit rods from Japan. Recently, someone gets their hands on one and slaps a fake (or legit?) Aspindale's label on it?
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I had one that came with another rod and it had Milwards written in very neat hand writing. I sanded it off and sold it on, both rods had been restored very nicely but clearly meant to deceive. I have recently seen another 3 piece rod with B James written in the same way and in the same locality.
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This item is definitely meant to deceive. The seller may have bought it in good faith, who knows. I have 2 quite superb Avon style 2 piece cane rods that are marked very nicely with the legends "Homers of Forest Gate" and "Avon Mk 1V" but they are nothing to do with Homers or the MK 1V range.
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If you look closely at the label on the rod in question, you will notice that the chap fishing is actually wearing his underpants on the outside so surely it's a "Superman Rod".

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You'll never keep dry wearing waders! Or are you doing a Bob Brookes! Or is that BB in the logo?

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