Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Ben Wright's Spinning Reel Report for July 2015

JULY 2015

THE GOOD,  THE BAD    AND THE UGLY  !!!

THE GOOD:
A super rare Seamaster Prototype with skirted spool and odd manual line
pick-up. unfinished aluminum
in exc condition SOLD @ 9,999.00

THE BAD:
An Abu Cardinal 77X nib with buy-it-now @ 1,000.00 NO BIDS
Box ONLY for a Penn 707 B/N @ 195.00 NO BIDS
J C Higgins Simpson-Sears no 3335 paint wear b/n @ 299.00 NO BIDS
Shakespeare 2210-11 nib start @229.00 NO BIDS

THE UGLY:
Custom Garcia Mitchell 300's with wild bright colors with Pearl, gems,
star fish, spiders and others  glued to the
side plates.  prices range from 30.00 to 50.00 with no BIDS and they
have been listed B/4

More Reels:

Abu Cardinal 57 ewb @ 75.00

Airex Spinster second version ewb @ 24.50

Austria:
Two Trixi's type A both have slight wear @ 73.00 for both

Dam Quick:
Standard 250 FB nib @ 103.50

English:
Allcock The Duplex some wear @ 65.12
    "    Felton Crosswind no 2 ewb @ 95.42
Helical trout size exc w/case @ 133.50
Universal Threadex exc @ 167.27

French:
Centaure exc+ w/plastic case @ 75.00
        "  Pacific green some wear @ 112.50
Ru Atlantic Super ewb @ 61.23

German:
Preciosa DGMA exc @ 151.00
Sportex Speed Spin River some wear @ 190.75

Heddon 204 nib @ 26.33

Italian:
10 Alcedo medallions various models like new B/N @310.00 NO BIDS
Albatros third version some wear @ 60.98
Alcedo Omnia Deluxe exc+ @ 275.00
Cargem Jolly Deluxe some wear @ 93.25
Cargem stella D'oro some wear @218.19
Linx DRP e-wb @ 90.74
  Zangi 3V second version shiny Black finish exc- wear @ 142.57

Japan:
Compac Continental e+wb @ 29.95
rare Herters 63A e-wb @ 90.99
Lafayette (mitchell 300 copy) e-wb @ 29.99
Spin Mitey slight wear @ 63.63

Langley:
850 Deluxe ewb @ 30.00
860 exc @ 24.50

Mitchell:
441A nib @ 140.00
909 exc+ @ 132.50

Ocean City 350 yellow exc+ @ 68.00

Otco Slip Cast exc @ 61.50

Penn:
650SS nib @ 130.31
700 first version exc- with rare early box @ 128.19
701 (700) e+wb @ 124.37
701 (700) NIB @ 47.55
704 second version exc @ 160.80
706Znib @ 162.56

Spain:
La Dorada Chritin some wear @  174.30

Swiss:
Blasi Blue Flash exc+ @ 99.98
Fix 1/2Bail slight wear @ only 17.15

Zebco:
99 CF Reel-N-Rod combo nip @ 240.00
101  "  "      "    "        "        "    @240.00

A few odd balls:
Budweiser Beer Can rod/reel nip @ 28.00
St Croix Fishing Machine rod/reel exc @ 132.51
Uslan 500 model 1 slight wear @ 167.50

way to many to list that were way over priced !!!!
Ben

1 comment:

Mike said...

Hi Dr. Todd, Why don't you do the Friday Funhouse any more? I really loved that edition of your blog...