I was tempted into putting this in -- I've done a bit of eBaying for friends over the past couple of years. The most common items I am given are rods and reels (go figure!). Rods are dire to present well. How do you take a good photograph of a thing 6 feet long by half an inch wide?
Reels, though, are another matter, and I enjoy being given a good-looking new or vintage reel to put up for auction. Here are a few that have passed through my hands. Several date back to the 1950s/60s and some a long way before that. Note the bone handles on 3 of them.
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 Pridex |
 A Milward reel with agate line guide |
 My star sale -- an old Allcock centre-pin, which realised £244! |
 1970/80s Hardy Marquis |
 Un-named wooden reel with silk fly line |
 Malloch of Perth |
 John Dickson & Sons of Edinburgh seatrout reel |
 A solid brass fly reel that would have taken a 3-weight fly line and weighed about 2 lb! |
 Abel bonefish reel |
 Set of 3 reproduction 1902 Hardy Perfects |
 Set of 3 reproduction 1912 Hardy Perfects |
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 Hardy Uniqua
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 Malloch of Perth
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 Anderson & Sons of Edinburgh
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