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Fishing tackle boxes part four – The Marco & Efgeeco bait box!

23 Friday Dec 2011

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60's, 70's, bait, box, efgeeco, gentles, maggot, marco, old, olive, plastic, tin, vintage

Not strictly a tackle box but it is included under the ‘fisherman’s tackle kit’ banner and what a beauty! I don’t want to get weepy over a plastic container that is intended to store gentles or worms but this Marco version is the only one I have ever seen. I grew up using (as did millions of anglers from the 60’s and 70’s) the Efgeeco bright green and cream version but this one is a rare breed.

Just to top off the bait box rare breed piece today at the tuesday swim we also have the dark olive green Efgeeco bait box. Some rare nostalgia to place your gentles in…

Sylcast, the aristocrat of fishing lines…

24 Wednesday Aug 2011

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andrews, arcadia, ash, ashtray, asti, design, efgeeco, fishing, line, london, market, milan, milano, plastic, sergio, spitalfields, sylcast, tray

Last thursday saw me at Andrews of Arcadia in Spitalfields market to pick up a 1960’s Sylcast ashtray. After some speculation with John, it is unclear of the history behind it but a few clues lead us to believe it was designed by Sergio Asti possibly for Sylcast salesmen to place in tackle shops across the land. On the base it reads R2S Made in Italy tel 598279 – Milano. If anyone has any more information on this please drop me a email or leave a comment…

Aside from speculative talk of ashtray provenance, there were the usual regulars dropping in for a pursue and a catch up on previous summer fishing adventures, stories of Port Eliot Festival and a long anticipated autumn trip on the Tweed.

A fishing tackle stall for the soul…oh and much tea was drunk!

It’s well worth dropping in to see Mr Andrews and all the other stall holders at Spitalfields market on a thursday, whether you are in search of saucy 1930’s postcards, a TWA penknife, a copy of Magazine’s Real Life or a Efgeeco rod bag.

You can also find Andrews of Arcadia here… http://www.andrewsofarcadia.com/

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