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The Early Years Of The Mitchell Fishing Reel

My friend Rolands Babulis has written a very in-depth and informative book on the early Mitchell reels, and has asked me to mention it on the forum, which I am now doing with Mark's kind permission.

The book will be available as a luxury limited edition and also as a standard edition.

It will be published by Bernard Caminade,so you can see it has a good pedigree and all details are available from Bernard on this e-mail caminade.b@wanadoo.fr

I am lucky enough to have read a proof version of the book, and can tell you it is fascinating and I now feel a lot more confident in identifying early Mitchells.

Rolands really is an expert.

Best wishes

Roger

Here are the chapter headings, to give some idea of the scope of this book

1 Fixed spool reel beginnings
2 Carpano et Pons' entry to fishing reel manufacture
3 The Mitchell
4 Classifying reels
5 Anatomy of the Mk 1 Mitchell
6 Mk 2 reel
7 Mk 3 reel
8 Mk4 reel
9 Boxes
10 Early box study
11 Owners leaflets
12 Dating
13 Mitchell story.La Saga Du Moulinet Le Mitchell 300,Le Produit Mracle
14 Mitchell publicity material
15 In conclusion

So as you can see quite an exhaustive study

Regards

Roger

Good Morning,

For those members interested,I believe Bernard is now accepting orders.

Regards Roger

The book is finally near conclusion and is now larger as it includes the Mitchell production records it will initially be a hardback limited edition of 100 copies, for more information please contact Bernard on the above e-mail.

Regards Roger

Bernard is now sending the books out, they are available at 80 euros plus post I believe, but contact Bernard for full details.

Roger

Bernard is now posting,so if you ordered a copy it will be on its way.

Regards Roger

Hello all,

Here are some examples of the content of this book you can see I am not a photographer but believe they will give you an idea.[img]

Tight Lines

Roger

I have an earlier (and treasured) edition of Rolands Book 'The Early Years Of The Mitchell Fishing Reel', and on my initial read through the first few pages, it quickly became apparent that the author is extremely passionate about these early Mitchell reels and knows his subject intimately.

His knowledge and attention to detail is remarkable, and it was nice to see that he respectfully presents his research and the findings/opinions of other respected historians, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions (I understand he has an enviable collection of some of the most desirable early reels, and therefore has been able to provide us with some really good trend analysis).

The book is nicely laid out and organised (see earlier posts in this thread), with a plethora of wonderful detailed photos and accompanied descriptions (it has helped me to understand a lot more about the early reels in my own small collection, and once in my hands, I find it a difficult book to put down again... every time).

Highly recommended!

Paul