This sale is for this very rare \"HENDRYX\" fly fishing reel, vintage Pat. date: Mar 21, 1876, & July 10, 1886. It all solid brass (nickel plated?), with wood handle, and it is in very good, lightly used condition. Please Check out my other antique/vintage listings, many of which ate also fishing items!The Andrew B. Hendryx CompanyThe Andrew B. Hendryx Co. was founded to manufacture bird cages in 1875. In 1879 the company expanded, moved to New Haven, CT, and became the Andrew B. Hendryx Co.As an avid fisherman, A. B. Hendryx became interested in manufacturing fishing reels. In 1886 he was granted the first of eleven patents he was to receive for reel design. Hendryx reels first appeared on the scene in 1887, and they were to remain one of the largest manufacturers of fishing reels and metal baits, in the U.S. until October 1919, when the company was sold to the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. produced tremendous number of reels in a great many models. In 1900 Hendryx advertised that they had produced 2 million reels in only 13 years of production. That\'s gettin\' with it! The majority of Hendryx reels were inexpensive models, however some of their reels were of high quality construction, and/or limited production and that makes these models valuable. Reels to look for are: the horizontal bird cage fly reel that is a near duplicate of the Follette, the Virginia automatic reel, the Kettletown, the ring clamp reels, and the early pull pin drag reels.There are quite a few \"generic\" Hendryx reels out there, but most of them were probably manufactured by Winchester. The only \"known\" generic name used by Hendryx was the \"Sterling\" brand, with and without a pound sign.NotesFamiliar patents seen on Hendryx reels are: Mar 21, 1876 (patent for a bird cage), Oct 26, 1886, July 10, 1888, Sept 15, 1889, Jan 27, 1891.
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