Updated: 25-11-2018
Excerpts from Catalogues: ( – more to come, when I find the time)
Allcocks (UK): 1965 * – ….
Chapman (UK): 1961-62 * – ….
DAM (Germany): 1954 – …. – 1958 – ….
Falcon (UK): 1972 * – ….
Farlow (UK): 1936 – …. – 1960 * – …. – 1966 * – 1967 * – …. – 1969 * – ….
Fishing Tackle Digest (USA): Including rods from South Bend, Montague, Edward vom Hofe, Payne, Heddon, Horrocks-Ibbotson, Shakespeare, Orvis, Granger, Thomas, J.C. Higgins, Edwards, Uslan, Lyons & Coulson, Phillipson a.o. 1946 – 1949 – ….
Foster Bros. (UK): 1963 * – ….
Bjarne Fries (Denmark): 2003_English – 2003_German – 2003_Italian –
Graham & Co. (UK): 1936 – ….
Hardy (UK): Hardy’s Greenheart Rod Numbers – Hardy Bamboo Rod Manufacturing Dates – 1914 – …. – 1927 – 1928 * – 1929 – 1930 * – 1931 * – …. – 1934 – …. – 1937-1 * – 1937-2 * – …. – 1951 (+ pricelist 53) – …. – 1955 – 1956 * – 1957 (+ pricelist 56/57) * – 1958 * – …. – 1960 * – 1961 * – 1962 – 1963 * – 1964 (+ pricelist) * – 1965 * – 1966 (+ pricelist 65/66) * – 1967 * – 1968 * – 1969 * – 1970 * – 1971 * – 1972 * – 1973 * – 1974 * – 1975 * – 1976 * – 1977 * – 1978 * – 1979 * – …. – 1989 * – …. – 1992 * – …. – 1997 * – …. – 2002 * – …. – 2004 (Callum Gladstone) * – …. – 2007 (Callum Gladstone) * – 2008 (Callum Gladstone) * – ….
Hildebrandt (Germany): 1995 * – ….
Horrocks Ibbotson (USA): 1949 * – ….
Hørgård (Norway): 1963 – …. – 1973 – 1974 – 1975 – 1976 – 1977 – …. – 1979 – 1980 * – 1981 * – 1982 – 1983 – ….
Leonard (USA): 1976 * – ….
Montagne (USA): 1983-84 * – …. – 1986 preview * – ….
Orvis (USA): 1975 * – 1976 * – 1977 * – 1978 * – 1979 * – …. – 1981 * – 1982 * – 1983 * – 1984 * – 1985 * – 1986 * – 1987 – 1988 – …. – 1990 * – …. – 1992 * – …. – 1994 * – 1995 * – 1996 * – 1997 * – 1998 * – 1999 * – 2000 * – 2001 * – 2002 * – 2003 * – 2004 * – 2005 * – …. – 2010 * – ….
Partridge (UK): 1983 * – ….
Pezon & Michel (France): (Pezon et Michel – The Story), 1960 * – …. – 1972 * – 1973 * – …. – 19xx * – …. – 1976 – 1977 * – …. – 19zz * – …. – 2004 * – ….
Powell (USA): A Short Common Sense Treatise on Fly Rod Construction, E.C. Powel * – The Walton Powell Rod * – 1985 * – ….
Scott (USA): 2014 – …. –
Sharpe (UK): Sharpes rodnumbering system – 1983 * – ….
South Bend (USA): 1929 – …. – 1937 – …. – 1939 – …. – 1948 – …. – 1950 – ….
F.E. Thomas (USA): 1955 – ….
Thomas & Thomas (USA): 1983 * – 1984 * – ….
Weir & Son (USA): 1982 * – ….
Dermot Wilson (UK). Including Rods from Hardy, Sharpe, Pezon & Michel and Dennis Bailey: 1972 * – 1973 * – 1974 * – 1975 * – 1976 * – 1977 * – 1978 * – 1979 (D. Wilson – Frank Sawyer Nymph Rod) * – 1980 * – 1981 * – ….
Winston (USA): 1975 * – …. – 1992 – …. – 1996 * – …. – 2000 – ….
Paul H. Young (USA): 1975 * – ….
