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EXCEPTIONAL SAILOR MADE HAND LINE SET UP MUSEUM WORTHY ONE OF MY FAVORITES Been collecting reels since I was about 10. Earliest memories I have living on Vancouver Island right on the water with salmon jumping in my backyard.m is fishing with my Fathers old Nottingham which I still have. Been in the Antiques business for 35 years and reels have always been my preferred collectable. Never about value more precision and design. Think of the 100’s of designs all in the end trying to do the same thing. I even love the rare failures. Lock my page down as I will be bringing you a great collection made up mostly of my best 75 or 80 reels. I admit a bias towards New York ball handle reels and Kentucky’s along with a bunch of weird ones and one offs. Feel my passion and look after these beauties of which I will try and underpromise and over deliver. ANy return for any reason is okay with me if you pay return shipping ( unless I made a mistake then it’s my problem. Each one has been dismantled and restored to the highest grade I could bring it, always focused on restoration not repair. ON MY LIST OF FAVORITE THINGS. Great example of how value is never the point. It’s about holding something in your hand and recognizing something that gives pleasure like a piece of art like I consider this to be. Not many have seen more gear than I and this is by far the most exceptional piece of its kind. The exquisit fineness along with the whale bone furniture suggests some whaler with a lot of time turned something utilitarian into art. They are usually northern when even close to this good. Maine, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland where the carvers were that good and the winters that long. I once saw a kid in Halifax NS work one of these from the wharf for smelt. Something to see, it’s like this dance as they work to retrieve using not the hand but this as the spool. Look closely at all the cutouts and try and imagine the how it’s done, it’s really interesting to see. I think maple or cherry from the first half 19th C. I hope someone appreciates this piece as I have done for the last 30 odd years.