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Antique Fishing Tackle

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A very rare mounted Tunny (Blue Fin Tuna) head, mounted onto an oak shield wall plaque with applied oval legend plaque “763lb Tunny Killed on September 10th 1933 by George Barker 25 miles off Scarborough after 4hours 55mins, Winning Paul Latham Trophy and Hardy Cup for Best Fish of the Year on Rod and 54 Thread Line”, 44in high…


…along with the head mount there is a further mounted section of the tail finlets and a framed and glazed collection of related ephemera including the original Gerrard’s invoice for mounting and preserving the specimen, two b/w photographs with angler and boat crew and a copy of the British Tunny Club logbook (see illustration) E3500 5500 ** Originally sold through Angling Auctions the specimen was displayed for many years at the Jamaica Inn Curiosity Museum in Cornwall before its closure in 2002…

If you can guess how much this went for when I was portering at the auction last saturday, Tilba the cat will send you a special ‘OM’ in his next meditation…

Angling Auctions sold some wonderful antique fishing tackle and other memorabilia last Saturday. Check out some of the stuffed fish!

This was my favourite I think

edmittance  |   2004.03.30

Mmm, nice. I’d paid up to three figures for it to join my stuffed mudshark in my hallway.

But I’m really saving up to buy a sailfish to hang over my cocktail bar.

Nabakov  |  2004.04.01

You are clearly a man of good taste. Are you Duke? It went for four figuers, actually - UKP too - £4,800, or 11,618.11 AUD…

ed  |  2004.04.01


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