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Hopefully you will have come across one of our adverts or newsletters for our Thomas Turner Fishing Antiques business by now, either here on the forums, or on the FM Facebook page perhaps and so know it exists as least.
We have been growing the stock, in particular since John Stephenson joined the team a few months back as Commercial Director, who was formerly the manager of the fishing section at Mullock's Auctions for many years, and as such is a very well known face in those circles. His knowledge of vintage fishing tackle is fascinating, witnessed by the series of blogs he has started to write for the site. Have a look at the 'Antique and Vintage Fishing Tackle Info' section on the site when you get a minute. Very interesting stuff and new short articles being added weekly. We also have our video library now too all about collecting vintage tackle so you can learn about different aspects.
What we would like to know from you is what brands of rods, reels and other accessories you like to collect, and so what we should be looking out for in our buying missions around the country?
We'd love to see some photos posted up by the way of some of your favourite pieces, display cases or collections in this thread!
Our stock has largely been fly fishing oriented just due to the original inventory we took on, but we are working hard to bring in some lovely vintage classic coarse tackle now too for sale, and have had several B James Avons, including the Richard Walker versions, Peter Stone Ledgerstrikes, various Hardy, Farlow and Allcock centrepins, and fixed spool reels like Mitchells and Hardy's plus some very nice Abu gear too. It has been turning over nicely, and we are also now running an ebay store which is being very successful at https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/thomasturnerfishingantiques with even more stock. Most is still very usable which we know is important to some, whereas as others have had a good life and now it is time for them to rest easy and just be admired as display pieces.
But we'd like to focus even more on the finer side of quality classic coarse fishing tackle, hence the question of what items you might be keeping your eyes open for? Please do let us know and we will start to share more items through into this classifieds section for you to see. We also maintain a 'wishlist' of specific items being searched for - just email us at office@thomasturner.com to see if we can help!
Do you have vintage or classic modern fishing tackle to sell?
We are always interested in purchasing high quality vintage or modern tackle items.
If you have a collection or an individual item to sell please get in touch. You can use the form on our website, or email us at john@thomasturner.com
Please include some good clear images, our video on the webpage will help with that. We will get right back to you by phone or email.
Remember, most things are worth something! Brands of particular interest include Hardy, Allcock’s, Foster’s, Abu, Farlows, B James, Sharpe’s, Orvis, Sage, Thomas & Thomas, Abel, Tibor and Loop.
So don’t chuck it out, check it out!
Thanks,
Paul
We have been growing the stock, in particular since John Stephenson joined the team a few months back as Commercial Director, who was formerly the manager of the fishing section at Mullock's Auctions for many years, and as such is a very well known face in those circles. His knowledge of vintage fishing tackle is fascinating, witnessed by the series of blogs he has started to write for the site. Have a look at the 'Antique and Vintage Fishing Tackle Info' section on the site when you get a minute. Very interesting stuff and new short articles being added weekly. We also have our video library now too all about collecting vintage tackle so you can learn about different aspects.
What we would like to know from you is what brands of rods, reels and other accessories you like to collect, and so what we should be looking out for in our buying missions around the country?
We'd love to see some photos posted up by the way of some of your favourite pieces, display cases or collections in this thread!
Our stock has largely been fly fishing oriented just due to the original inventory we took on, but we are working hard to bring in some lovely vintage classic coarse tackle now too for sale, and have had several B James Avons, including the Richard Walker versions, Peter Stone Ledgerstrikes, various Hardy, Farlow and Allcock centrepins, and fixed spool reels like Mitchells and Hardy's plus some very nice Abu gear too. It has been turning over nicely, and we are also now running an ebay store which is being very successful at https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/thomasturnerfishingantiques with even more stock. Most is still very usable which we know is important to some, whereas as others have had a good life and now it is time for them to rest easy and just be admired as display pieces.
But we'd like to focus even more on the finer side of quality classic coarse fishing tackle, hence the question of what items you might be keeping your eyes open for? Please do let us know and we will start to share more items through into this classifieds section for you to see. We also maintain a 'wishlist' of specific items being searched for - just email us at office@thomasturner.com to see if we can help!
Do you have vintage or classic modern fishing tackle to sell?
We are always interested in purchasing high quality vintage or modern tackle items.
If you have a collection or an individual item to sell please get in touch. You can use the form on our website, or email us at john@thomasturner.com
Please include some good clear images, our video on the webpage will help with that. We will get right back to you by phone or email.
Remember, most things are worth something! Brands of particular interest include Hardy, Allcock’s, Foster’s, Abu, Farlows, B James, Sharpe’s, Orvis, Sage, Thomas & Thomas, Abel, Tibor and Loop.
So don’t chuck it out, check it out!
Thanks,
Paul