History in a Hardy rod bag

[Coral Maestro]

I found a couple of these in an antiques shop on a recent trip to the UK and was curious as to the history of the Harris and Sheldon Group:





A bit of an investigation on the internet indicates that they were/are a private investments company who took over Hardys in 1967. Interestingly, the Group owns the Junction and Sprouston beats on the River Tweed and a couple of salmon beats on the Tay.
Hardys was sold to Pure Fishing in 2013.

[Nigel Rainton]

Interesting that they dropped the royal crest :-)

[Duckett]

Harris & Sheldon rod bags just carry on shrinking!!!

[Coral Maestro]

Interesting that they dropped the royal crest :-)

They went from 10 down to 1! I have a recent Hardy fly rod which has the Prince of Wales plumes on the rod bag along with "By Appointment to H. R. H. The Prince of Wales.