Interesting - thanks Neville Mike
> On Nov 21, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Neville Gosling <nev.gosl...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > Hi Mike: > > I remember the firm of "Edgar Sealy & Sons" & got the following from the web > - although I don't think that it is 100% accurate. I could be wrong but I > don't think that they continued making hooks up to 1981. I suspect that the > hook making ceased long before that. > > "Edgar Sealy & Sons started as a hook-maker some time around 1930, and are > listed in the Kelly's Directory of 1932 at Brookhill Works, Hewell Road, > Redditch." > > "At their peak in the 1950s, they were employing around 100 people, but they > were taken over by Dunlop Sports in 1960, and became more of a distributor > than manufacturer, though they continued making hooks until they closed the > factory and moved to Falmouth in 1981." > > "Some of their machinery was bought by Vince Green, and is still used in the > manufacture of Sprite hooks." > > Not sure of status of Sprite now. Vince Green had a stroke and closed the > business and shortly after he passed away. Someone has subsequently tried to > resurrect Sprite. > > I went for a tour of the Partridge Factory in Redditch in 1985. At that time, > Partridge already had some of the hook making machinery that formerly > belonged to Sealy. > > As far as I know, Edgar Sealy & Sons was the first company to produce the > "Octopus" style of hooks which is popular today > > "Their reels were all made by J. W. Young and at one time were Young's main > distributor." I have one of their reels in almost mint boxed condition. > > As I recall, there was also a Bernard Sealy involved in the fishing tackle > industry in the UK but I was unable to find any reference to them. > > Neville (Nev) Gosling > > <P1020732.jpeg><P1020733.jpeg> > > >> On Nov 20, 2014, at 6:51 PM, Mike Bliss <flyfish...@gmail.com >> <mailto:flyfish...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I am organizing my tying materials. Years ago I picked up several boxes of >> Edgar Sealey & Sons hooks. One box I am not sure what they are exactly. >> The number is S3008. I don’t have a book that can tell me what they are. >> It looks like a standard wet fly hook. Any help out there? Are they worth >> anything other than for the hook? >> >> Mike >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. >> > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > <http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en> > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > <http://www.linesend.com/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
