Last edited by Skyler76; 04-18-2022 at 01:43 PM.
Call Jim Adams of Adams Angling. Jim’s a great man and has seen many of these. You could email pics to him. Beautiful reel by the way!!
http://www.adamsanglingbooks.com/
Bill Archuleta's Reel Works can fix up your old fly reels too.
He is now in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
https://www.archuletasreelworks.com/
That reel should be worth a lot of money.
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I saw you posted it on SpeyPages as well, there are lots of Hardy experts that that can better value that than I can. It is in incredible shape, is it really a pre-war Perfect? Looks like it’s got the ribbed brass foot, but the rest is so pristine that it almost makes it seem like a reproduction. Beautiful reel either way, and out of my explaining-it-to-my-wife range.
Absolutely not a repro (unless it was repro'd a long long time ago). There's family history to it and others. It's been sitting in an attic for 30-40 years with a bunch of gear, wrapped in paper in a tea chest believe it or not. It was my fathers and he doesn't know where it came from but that's not saying much. He's got quite a few Hardys which he gave to me, I'm only interested in the one's he's used. The proceeds of the rest are going towards a Safari we're taking together.
Oh, I’m not suggesting it’s a reproduction. Just that the condition is stunning for one that age. Good luck with it - I would think it should fetch four figures easily.
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