FLY FISHING INTEREST; A GROUP OF SIX REELS, INCLUDING A LATE VICTORIAN CHEVALIER, BOWNESS AND SON SALMON REEL AND A HARDY’S REEL

Including an alloy Hardy’s Alnwick patent reel with ivorine handle, 8cm diameter; the Chevalier brass reel engraved with ‘Chevalier BOWNESS & Son, 12 Bell Yard, Temple Bar, London, 9cm diameter; an alloy trout reel engraved ‘A. Carter & Co, South Molton St’ with ivorine handle, 9cm diameter; and three other alloy reels

Condition report: 

Various signs of wear and use commensurate with age. One smaller one quite pitted, others with some Verdi gris.