Kelly, Mary Kefover - U. S. Fishing Rod Patents and Other Tackle 8'7" Original cordura pouch with Farlex

Original cordura pouch with Farlex logo printed on side

The spools are one-piece aluminum machined from bar stock

and canvas cover

For sale here is a very scarce and unused Hardy Palakona "Catskill" model bamboo rod

You can find a similar McMonies creel on Page 81 of the book "The Art of the Creel"

Kelly, Mary Kefover - U. S. Fishing Rod Patents and Other Tackle 8'7" Original cordura pouch with Farlex1990 1st edition. Thomas B. Reel Company. Plano, Texas. 104 pages. B W photographs, illustrations. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Like new condition in dust jacket showing minor handling marks. "U. S. Patents Class 43. Sub Classes 18 26. 1854 to 1931". Contains numerous reproductions of patent drawings, as well as photgraphs of rods and equipment. Introduction and brief history of the fishing rod by the editor, Brian McGrath of the Leonard