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Dusty Miller Sun Popham Jock Scott Durham Ranger Wilmot Fairy Orange Doctor Black Dose Butcher Silver Doctor Fiery Brown Silver Gray
Winchester Envelope with
3 Trout Flies Five with Double Hook Jock Scott with Abby &
Imbrie Letterhead Jock Scott Envelope Three Sun Group of Trout Flies
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The salmon and trout flies represented here are part of a collection that my father, Roger Cole, acquired by chance in 1948. He discovered them in folded, unopened wrappers from Abbey & Imbrie, New York in a japanned metal tackle box that he bought from a neighbor for $4 Hingham, Mass. The box had belonged to the neighbor's father who died in 1905.
My father was an avid outdoorsman with interests in fly fishing, bird hunting and nature photography. He kept the collection in its original state in the tackle box, sealed with tape to prevent insect damage. I discovered it after his death - along with a set of 35mm Kodachrome slides and notes for an article that was submitted but rejected by Fly Fisherman magazine in 1985.
The images here are from those 35mm slides - originally taken with a Honeywell Pentax camera with a macro lens. I had the slides digitized at 4000 DPI to preserve for possible future prints. Those jpeg images are about 12 MB in size - the web jpeg images here are lower resolution and approximately 400 KB in size.
Below is some my father's research notes when may be of interest to collectors:
