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Not a post-war jazz or blues band but three Allcock’s Felton Crosswind fishing reels of interest.
In a land far away, the Snowdonia National Park, lay a clutch of spinning and thread line reels with my name on them.
The assortment above are fresh to the market, and all interesting.
The three variants of the Allcock Felton Crosswind reels were all built by J W Young as was the way back in the day.
The centre top reel with the round body is the second version of the first model and has a rarely seen manual line pick up wire. The black triangular body Felton, is trying to be an Ambidex, but retains the offset oscillating head which lays the line perfectly.
The two outer Intrepid Continentals are not common; both working well and are surprisingly smooth. The bail arms snap shut like a mouse trap using powerful return springs. I like these.
And finally, we have two thread line spinning reels.
After years of trying to market his own hand-made reels, the death knell to his efforts took a blow when a sample Stanley reel was returned from a tackle shop after five years saying they could not sell it. Down, but not out, Stanley finally approached Courtney Williams of Allcock’s and after a ding-dong battle of the titans, they finally agreed to produce the Allcock Stanley reel as seen here on the right.
The reel had an incredible production run of over 35-years. Mad to think that at the end of its retail life the Stanley was competing with the superb Mitchell 300, the technically excellent Hardy Altex, J W Young’s Ambidex series, classy Abu Cardinals and even the diecast alloy Intrepid range.
The silver finish alloy thread line on the left of the picture is a Palace Superb. A reincarnation of the friction drive Allcock Stanley reel using a rubber drive washer and toothed drive wheel. Based on the failing Stanley principle it has little impact on any of the reels above. Some Palace models have engraved side plates, many have stickers and some like this one featured above have neither making identification difficult if you don’t know what the reel is.
Do you have any interesting early vintage fixed spool and thread line reels to sell? Drop me an email with a good picture or two and let’s talk tackle!
John Stephenson – john@thomasturner.com
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In a land far away, the Snowdonia National Park, lay a clutch of spinning and thread line reels with my name on them.
The assortment above are fresh to the market, and all interesting.
The three variants of the Allcock Felton Crosswind reels were all built by J W Young as was the way back in the day.
The centre top reel with the round body is the second version of the first model and has a rarely seen manual line pick up wire. The black triangular body Felton, is trying to be an Ambidex, but retains the offset oscillating head which lays the line perfectly.
The two outer Intrepid Continentals are not common; both working well and are surprisingly smooth. The bail arms snap shut like a mouse trap using powerful return springs. I like these.
And finally, we have two thread line spinning reels.
After years of trying to market his own hand-made reels, the death knell to his efforts took a blow when a sample Stanley reel was returned from a tackle shop after five years saying they could not sell it. Down, but not out, Stanley finally approached Courtney Williams of Allcock’s and after a ding-dong battle of the titans, they finally agreed to produce the Allcock Stanley reel as seen here on the right.
The reel had an incredible production run of over 35-years. Mad to think that at the end of its retail life the Stanley was competing with the superb Mitchell 300, the technically excellent Hardy Altex, J W Young’s Ambidex series, classy Abu Cardinals and even the diecast alloy Intrepid range.
The silver finish alloy thread line on the left of the picture is a Palace Superb. A reincarnation of the friction drive Allcock Stanley reel using a rubber drive washer and toothed drive wheel. Based on the failing Stanley principle it has little impact on any of the reels above. Some Palace models have engraved side plates, many have stickers and some like this one featured above have neither making identification difficult if you don’t know what the reel is.
Do you have any interesting early vintage fixed spool and thread line reels to sell? Drop me an email with a good picture or two and let’s talk tackle!
John Stephenson – john@thomasturner.com
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