Book?
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JohnL
Re: Book?
This might help viewtopic.php?f=193&t=12231 I don't think I've ever see much more.
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Nobby
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Re: Book?
A tackle shop pulled up its floorboards last year and found some advetising that indicates Edgar Sealey were around before 1900, but nothing much seems to be known about them before the Fifties and their ever-popular Octopus range of rods. I've seen a very early " The Octopus" fly rod, without a transfer, but it had been restored so isn't much proof-wise.
They dropped the green Octopus logo about 1963, though kept the Octofloat rod in the range. The new logo was two circling fishes. At this time the varnish was changed to a 'new' polyeurethane which wasn't much good and 'two-fishes' rods need inspecting thoroughly for rotted cane and delamination.
Just before they were closed down by new owner Gladding the logo on very late rods was changed again...still two fishes, but much more stylised.
That's it....pretty much all I've found out in all these years..... their catalogues are thin on the ground but all help to fill in the picture, all I've managed to find is a 1964 and a 1967.
They dropped the green Octopus logo about 1963, though kept the Octofloat rod in the range. The new logo was two circling fishes. At this time the varnish was changed to a 'new' polyeurethane which wasn't much good and 'two-fishes' rods need inspecting thoroughly for rotted cane and delamination.
Just before they were closed down by new owner Gladding the logo on very late rods was changed again...still two fishes, but much more stylised.
That's it....pretty much all I've found out in all these years..... their catalogues are thin on the ground but all help to fill in the picture, all I've managed to find is a 1964 and a 1967.
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AshbyCut
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Re: Book?
Following Nobby's post .. I have a "Sealey Fishing Manual 1967," and a "Sealey fishing catalogue 1969."
"Beside the water I discovered (or maybe rediscovered) the quiet. The sort of quiet that allows one to be woven into the tapestry of nature instead of merely standing next to it." Estaban.
