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Rare aluminium Edward vom Hofe reel at Lang’s auction
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13th October 2012Angling book from 1518 at Christie’s auction
16th October 2012
An Edward vom Hofe Restigouche in all-aluminium is the highlight of Lang’s next auction this Saturday and Sunday. It’s estimated at $15,000-$20,000. Other rare lots include a Philbrook & Paine marbelised salmon example (pictured), a 3/0 Hardy Restigouche, a red-handled Seamaster anti-reverse fly reel, a George Snyder brass Kentucky and a pair of Stan Bodgan Anniversary salmon reels. Rods include a 9ft Garrison salmon rod and a 7ft 3in Walt Carpenter twin-tip trout rod. The sale, which is online only, also offers a large section of lures, some early fishing-related calendars and a wide selection of flies by renowned tyers among its near-2000 lots. Leave a bid unless you’re happy paying 3% on top of the 18% buyers’ commission.
Keith Elliott
Editor and publisher of Classic Angling magazine. Founder member of UK Angling Writers' Association and current chairman. Former winner of Writer of the Year. I wrote a weekly angling column for The Independent for 23 years, having previously written columns for The Guardian and Sunday Mirror. If it swims, I'll fish for it: marlin or mackerel, trout or tench, salmon or snook. I've written several books on fishing, from one for the Duke of Edinburgh's award to the notorious Catchmore Sharks (don't look at the pictures) and Bob Nudd's autobiography, How to be the World's Best Fisherman. I love exotic travel for fishing (been to Mongolia and Ecuador, the Great Barrier Reef and Arunachal Pradesh) and wish I could afford to do such trips more often. My favourite fish? Anything with fins, though I have a special love for mahseer, and I’m Founder and former Chairman of the Masher Trust.
