dezza
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I have a copy of "A Modern Treatise on Practical Coarse Fish Angling", written by Henry Coxon of Nottingham in 1896. In it are over 50 full page and half page advertisements covering everything from fishing tackle to clothes and from bicycles to lace curtains and antimacassas.
Here are a few:
"Anglers ask for Hicktons Hop Bitters and Mineral Waters".
"****son & Parker's Athletic Outfits".
"Cycling, Cricket, Tennis, Boating, Riding, Fishing, Shooting and Football."
"Ambrose Middleton - Rupture Specialist"
Manufacturer and dealer in trusses, abdominal & Riding Belts, Elastic Stockings, Knee Caps, Anklets, Leggings, Suspensary & other Bandages.
(Anglers would do well to note this!
"Armitage Bros High Street, Nottingham"
Bamboo canes and fishing rods from 8d each!
"Skinner & Rook"
Specialities in Irish and Scotch Whiskies. John Jameson Old Liqueur Irish Whiskey per doz: 75/-
"Spratts Patent DOG CAKES!"
"See that your cakes are stamped "SPRATTS PATENT and with an X."
The Lightest rods in use:
"Booth's Five Joint Bamboo Roach Rod" weight 7 to 10 oz.
4s. 8d for cash only
"R.P. & H.B. DAFT, All England Sports Warehouse"
Daft's Physical Execiser recommended by Medical Men
"Francis M. Walbran - Practical Angler"
Manufacturer of rods, reels, lines and every description of High Class fishing tackle.
The "Swaledale" Roach Rod, whole cane , snake rings, fully fitted in bag complete, 10/6 each.
"WM. King, Chemist"
King's Natural Paste Bait. Highly recommended by the editors of the Fishing Gazette. The Trent Otter says: "I killed with King's bait 39 fish which weighed 22 1/2 lbs, many over 1lb each"
Does not wash off the hook. Packets - 3d, 6d, and 1s.
"DEWARS celebrated SCOTCH WHISKY"
Awarded 50 gold and prize medals.
Dewars Perth Whisky is known and appreciated wherever the English language is spoken. It is highly appreciated and prescribed by the Medical Profession and recommends itself to the public by its delicious flavour, mellowness and roundness, its exhilerating qualities and by the fact that it leaves no bad after effects.
"This is good, pure and wholesome Spirit" - Lancet.
"BURBERRY'S PATENT GABARDINE COMBINATION ANGLING SUIT!" (And not a Chav in sight)
Protects against thorns, fishhooks, rain, sleet, snow, hot or cold winds, rot, mildew ants and spiders. (we need protection against him even in these days.
Have you noticed how many complain about the amount of adveratising in today's fishing magazines. The Victorians had far more!
Oh and finally:
"Modern Improvements in Fishing Tackle and Fish Hooks"
by H. Cholmondeley Pennell.
Even he was around then
Here are a few:
"Anglers ask for Hicktons Hop Bitters and Mineral Waters".
"****son & Parker's Athletic Outfits".
"Cycling, Cricket, Tennis, Boating, Riding, Fishing, Shooting and Football."
"Ambrose Middleton - Rupture Specialist"
Manufacturer and dealer in trusses, abdominal & Riding Belts, Elastic Stockings, Knee Caps, Anklets, Leggings, Suspensary & other Bandages.
(Anglers would do well to note this!
"Armitage Bros High Street, Nottingham"
Bamboo canes and fishing rods from 8d each!
"Skinner & Rook"
Specialities in Irish and Scotch Whiskies. John Jameson Old Liqueur Irish Whiskey per doz: 75/-
"Spratts Patent DOG CAKES!"
"See that your cakes are stamped "SPRATTS PATENT and with an X."
The Lightest rods in use:
"Booth's Five Joint Bamboo Roach Rod" weight 7 to 10 oz.
4s. 8d for cash only
"R.P. & H.B. DAFT, All England Sports Warehouse"
Daft's Physical Execiser recommended by Medical Men
"Francis M. Walbran - Practical Angler"
Manufacturer of rods, reels, lines and every description of High Class fishing tackle.
The "Swaledale" Roach Rod, whole cane , snake rings, fully fitted in bag complete, 10/6 each.
"WM. King, Chemist"
King's Natural Paste Bait. Highly recommended by the editors of the Fishing Gazette. The Trent Otter says: "I killed with King's bait 39 fish which weighed 22 1/2 lbs, many over 1lb each"
Does not wash off the hook. Packets - 3d, 6d, and 1s.
"DEWARS celebrated SCOTCH WHISKY"
Awarded 50 gold and prize medals.
Dewars Perth Whisky is known and appreciated wherever the English language is spoken. It is highly appreciated and prescribed by the Medical Profession and recommends itself to the public by its delicious flavour, mellowness and roundness, its exhilerating qualities and by the fact that it leaves no bad after effects.
"This is good, pure and wholesome Spirit" - Lancet.
"BURBERRY'S PATENT GABARDINE COMBINATION ANGLING SUIT!" (And not a Chav in sight)
Protects against thorns, fishhooks, rain, sleet, snow, hot or cold winds, rot, mildew ants and spiders. (we need protection against him even in these days.
Have you noticed how many complain about the amount of adveratising in today's fishing magazines. The Victorians had far more!
Oh and finally:
"Modern Improvements in Fishing Tackle and Fish Hooks"
by H. Cholmondeley Pennell.
Even he was around then
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