Charity shop/ bootfair finds.

marcus ballam · Jul 1, 2008

Went into a charity shop on friday and found a copy of "The Book of the Perch" for £3!!!!

Cheapest copy on amazon is £130 going up to £250!!!

What is your best ever find?

(Oh by the way, I'm not selling!!!)

mike Gibson · Jul 1, 2008

I've been pretty lucky.Picked up a Chapman 500 split cane avon rod in fairly good condition for £4 and a Sealey Octofloat split cane float rod that looked like it had never been used for a fiver at a local boot fair.

Also got a Trudex centre pin and a Mitchell Match (the blue one with thedab bale arm), both in good working order for three and four pounds respectively ata church jumble sale earlier this year.

fred hall · Jul 1, 2008

Managed an Allcocks centrepin for a tenner

Lark · Jul 1, 2008

Pre carboot days there were the old flea-markets. In 1980 I got my Allcocks Match Aerial in mint condition in it's original woodenbox for £5.

Dicky (Angling Trust PAC) · Jul 1, 2008

Boot sales are the major reason that tackle theft is on the up.

Think twice before bagging a bargain, you are only putting your own gear at risk.

That said 'Understanding Barbel' by Fred Crouch for 50p in Oxfam can't be bad...

Mark Wintle · Jul 1, 2008

10 very nice books for £30 at a boot fair, all first editions with DWs.

What I don't understand about Book of the Perch which I haven't got is why it is priced artificially high. OK it's a nicebook yet despite only 1500 being printed it is not scarce as Bookfinder will typically turn up 20 copies and yet who actually pays £150 for a copy? If one turned up every two years I could understand it but this suggests an inflated price. I think its true worth is about £20 to £30 pounds. Interestingly, Casting at the Sun had the same problem in that it typically fetched£200 but the high price flushed out plenty of copies and the price for a first edition is now around £75.

Derek Gibson · Jul 2, 2008

A Speedia centrepin in mint nick (classic pin) for a fiver. Chapman ''Peter Stone'' Ledgerstrike seven quid-but best of all Allcocks Ariel with ebonite drum circa 1905- twenty quid because the drum didn't run true. Twenty minutes spent tuning had it spinning for three minutes with just a tap.

Paul (Brummie) Williams · Jul 3, 2008

I had a great hotdog at one once.

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