March Brown design drafts

[letumgo]

Bill - Do you have any idea what the "Quality 777" stood for? Or is the "777" the hook model number?

Thanks for sharing. These look like ideal flymph hooks. Nice score!

[wsbailey]

I believe that was Herter's way of designating a model number. To call George Herter unique would be an understatement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/book ... ins-t.html

[letumgo]

Great article. I am still laughing, after reading it. Funny stuff!

[wsbailey]

The world today is much more corporate. I read somewhere that while L.L. Bean was telling hunting and fishing stories at the front of the store; employees were stealing stuff out the back. When he died the number one rule for a replacement was no "characters". The mail order business used to be more or less the wild frontier but when Lee Harvey Oswald bought his rifle by mail things changed drastically.

https://www.guns.com/2015/11/07/bannerm ... avy-store/

[redietz]

The one thing Herter admired about England was the fishing hooks.

I thought the only thing Herter admired was Herter.

[wsbailey]

Apparently, he made an exception for English hooks.