Hardy Unknown Fly Fishing

Name: Hardy Unknown Fly Fishing
Brand: Hardy
SKU: 298671209297
Price: 80 GBP
Availability: InStock

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About this rod

Irish Hardy gut eyed salmon fly

Pattern : Garibaldi. A very rarely seen pattern in mint condition.

Size : Size 1

Due to building connection over the years in the gut fly sphere, I was lucky enough to have the whole collection appaised by Martin Lanigan O'Keefe.

He described the collection as a "Fantastic find!"

Martin was given some flies for his deep appraisal of the collection as a contra deal.

The Fly fishers' club also took some flies for their extensive collection.

Bar a few examples already taken, I have numerous duplicates of these rare early Hardy Irish patterns.

I purchased the collection from an estate sale with little known history to the previous owner(s). The collection is a unmolested snap shot of a gentlemans collection bought in the late 1800's or very early 1900's. Martins thoughts were that they were probably purchased for a fishing trip to Ireland. Most as stated are Hardy patterns with a few Irish patterns in there too. Many are in pristine condition. Its amazing that it has been left in its entirety over such a long period of time.

I have now decided to start selling some of this collection to private collectors via Ebay - will be a listing a selection of Gut Eyed and early iron flies every week.

Happy to post worldwide ( due to Ebay rules I have to use their global postage scheme) .

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