Unmarked Raised Check Plate Birmingham Style Fly Reel Circa-1840
Unmarked Raised Check Plate Birmingham Style Fly Reel Circa-1840-50. Extremely clean, smooth and fast spinning reel with no wobble. The raised check plate gear functions perfectly favoring a right hand wind. This early style reel came with a removable round external disc on the rear plate introduced in the early 1840s to permit the angler to replace, adjust, or lubricate this working part of the reel with out taking the entire reel apart. The raised check plate reel seems to have disapeared in the 1870s mainly do of its weight. Around 1870 it would be reintroduced by Avid Fisherman Henry P. Wells (Fly rods & Fly Tackle 1885) in Aluminum and continued to be designed and built by Julius Vom Hofe up until 1911. Extremely tough reel in great condition.
Unmarked Raised Check Plate Birmingham Style Fly Reel Circa-1840-50. Extremely clean, smooth and fast spinning reel with no wobble. The raised check plate gear functions perfectly favoring a right hand wind. This early style reel came with a removable round external disc on the rear plate introduced in the early 1840s to permit the angler to replace, adjust, or lubricate this working part of the reel with out taking the entire reel apart. The raised check plate reel seems to have disapeared in the 1870s mainly do of its weight. Around 1870 it would be reintroduced by Avid Fisherman Henry P. Wells (Fly rods & Fly Tackle 1885) in Aluminum and continued to be designed and built by Julius Vom Hofe up until 1911. Extremely tough reel in great condition.
Unmarked Raised Check Plate Birmingham Style Fly Reel Circa-1840-50. Extremely clean, smooth and fast spinning reel with no wobble. The raised check plate gear functions perfectly favoring a right hand wind. This early style reel came with a removable round external disc on the rear plate introduced in the early 1840s to permit the angler to replace, adjust, or lubricate this working part of the reel with out taking the entire reel apart. The raised check plate reel seems to have disapeared in the 1870s mainly do of its weight. Around 1870 it would be reintroduced by Avid Fisherman Henry P. Wells (Fly rods & Fly Tackle 1885) in Aluminum and continued to be designed and built by Julius Vom Hofe up until 1911. Extremely tough reel in great condition.