Best place to sell fishing tackle collection

[biggsy]

Jon

 

keep your rod bundles to quite low numbers, otherwise you'll end up getting nothing for them

 

Also I would suggest you sell cane with cane, and glass with glass - you'll find a lot of collectors won't entertain glass, just sticking to cane & greenheart

some others don't mind, but if you mix them, you're narrowing down your target audience

 

i'm guessing you've already done this, but if you go onto eBay & navigate to sport/fishing/vintage/rods & have a browse through, you'll soon get a feel for what kind of bundles other people sell

 

I go on there regularly (2 or 3 times a week) as I've been trying to find a specific rod for years (it's a hand made rod built by Ernest Stamford down Attercliffe, with a brown 2 piece 9'6" glass fibre blank, cork handle and the tip ring has a threaded adapter for fitting swingtips) I've even resorted to sourcing the blank & raw materials to actually build an identical one myself (you can still get these rod blanks from Oliver's of Knebworth)

 

I mention it only in passing, just in case you (or anyone else) stumble across on

 

Hi Dars

 

I'm pretty sure I have a brown Stamfords tip rod, i'll go and have a look mate

 

EDIT- Just been and found it!

 

It's a brown two piece of around 9'6" but it's a quivertip rod with removable tip

 

It has the Ernest Stamford, 419 Attercliffe Common, Sheffield sticker still on it!

Edited January 7, 2014 by biggsy
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[dars35]

Cheers biggsy, really appreciate you looking, but it's specifically the threaded tip one I need

I got the rod as a teenager 2nd hand from a bloke at me dad's works

immediately loved using it & I caught my first ever tench with it

 

tench were at the time, and remain to this day, my absolute favourite species, so a rod that I caught my first on is like a religious artifact to me...!

 

thanks again though

[biggsy]

Cheers biggsy, really appreciate you looking, but it's specifically the threaded tip one I need

I got the rod as a teenager 2nd hand from a bloke at me dad's works

immediately loved using it & I caught my first ever tench with it

 

tench were at the time, and remain to this day, my absolute favourite species, so a rod that I caught my first on is like a religious artifact to me...!

 

thanks again though

 

 

Sorry it wasn't the right one mate

 

I've used the Stamford rod a couple of times and for a really old glassfibre rod, it's very nice for use on the Rother with a smallish feeder

 

 

Cheers, Biggsy

[Jon26]

Thanks guys. Really appreciate your help.

 

I've got a 2 piece Ernest Stamford, it looks brand new. In a blue cloth bag. The tips are fixed. I believe it's a coarse rod, did they also make fly rods? Its probably old stock from my granddads shop.

 

Also got more than one Bruce & Watson which look to be similar.

 

I'm sure when I went fishing with my Dad in the 70's I used a glass rod, when did carbon fibre come in?

[dars35]

That's okay biggsy, cheers for looking anyway

 

Jon, as far as I know ernest stamford used to make mostly coarse leger rods, and I know of at least one float rod

 

the leger rods were the big thing back in the 70's as swingtipping for bream on the lincolnshire rivers & drains was the big method of the time for sheffield anglers, (I could be wrong, but I seem to recall the swingtip was actually developed by either a south yorks or lincolnshire angler) so most of their rods were leger rods

 

so far I've seen the rod I owned, then there was a quivertip rod with a honey coloured blank, and a dark brown swingtip rod, which had the swingtip built in to the end of the rod blank as opposed to the model I'm looking for, where the tip ring has a threaded adapter incorporated to allow you to attach swing, spring or quivertips

 

if the one you have fits this description, I'd be very interested...

 

 

carbon fibre was around in the 70's but very expensive, it really started booming in the 80's, these rods tend to be black or charcoal coloured blanks & are lighter & stiffer than glassfibre

[biggsy]

I bought a Daiwa Whisker Kevlar 13' float rod when they first came out, cost me £150 back in the 80s

I lost my balance in the shed last year and fell on my rod holdall! I heard a big CRACK!!

 

I knew instinctively that it was going to be my favoured float rod :(

 

Anyhow I bought another on fleabay recently though it's not identical (rubber handle rather than cork!) but i'm happy as larry again!!

 

I had already bought a fantastic 13' Dean Macey rod a while ago to replace it and it's a smashing rod

 

 

 

Cheers Biggsy

[dars35]

if you browse thru ebay's fishing/vintage/rods & reels sections it brings back some great memories (well, it does for me) I've bought a fair bit off there, tackle that I either owned or wanted to own when I was a teenager

 

even managed to find the exact rod I first started out with - which was only a cheapo 7' Milbro spinning rod, but the memories it brought back....

 

fact is there's a pretty big market for antique/vintage gear on there

 

I also have a number of vintage tackle websites on a word document

I'll post them all on here when I can dig it out...

 

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here's a few - not sure how you'd go about selling gear on them, but they might be worth a look...:

 

http://www.vintagefishingtackle.com/

http://www.antiquevintagefishingtackle.co.uk/

http://www.classicantiquefishingtackle.co.uk/

http://vintagefishingcompany.com/

http://www.vintagefishingtackle-uk.com/

http://www.classicvintagefishingtackle.com/

http://www.flyfishingantiques.com/

http://www.reelantiqueangling.co.uk/

http://www.traditionalfisherman.com

[Jon26]

I've got a milbro 7 foot dart rod too. It's a light green/blue one with wide diameter runners.

[Bluetongue]

Hi dars35 I think I have the ernest Stamford rod you are looking for if you can inbox me will send you some photo's

[Owls1966]

I m the same pal wanting to sell a Diawa Yank n Bank 10mtr with extension and 3 top kits all elasticated 2 orange 1 black where s best place