Echols Antique Lures

 

 

What's Rare and What's Not

In antique wood fishing lures (not metal or plastic)

By Dr. Michael Echols

A list of a few things we think are rare and things others don't know are common because they "never saw one before"  (a.k.a. eBayitis). 

Hey, this is for fun.  This is not a list of everything and it is not final.  I repeat:  It is for fun!!!

 

Rare ( in general )

Not Rare ( in general )

  • Pre-1925 catalogs (any company)

  • Heddon "The Why of It" paper

  • Heddon Dummy Double paper

  • Heddon two and three belly wt. lures

  • Heddon "high forehead" lures

  • Heddon two piece hardware

  • Heddon Spindiver

  • Heddon Black Sucker

  • Pflueger gem clip hardware lures

  • Shakespeare gem clip hardware lures

  • Shakespeare wood boxes

  • Heddon wood boxes

  • Pflueger wood boxes

  • Pflueger contract boxes

  • Pflueger Four Bros. boxes

  • Creek Chub "special order" lures

  • Creek Chub 6 or 12 packs

  • Heddon lures in Sienna

  • Heddon lures in copper

  • Heddon lures in gold

  • Heddon lures in slate back

  • Heddon lures in frog scale

  • Heddon lures in blue scale

  • Heddon lures in all yellow

  • Heddon lures in brown natural scale

  • Heddon lures in white strawberry spot

  • Pflueger maroon boxes

  • Pflueger Monarchs

  • Pflueger Electric Minnows

  • Shakespeare Punkinseeds

  • Heddon white boxes

  • Heddon Pine Tree box

  • Heddon Picture boxes

  • Shakespeare black boxes

  • Shakespeare picture boxes

  • Creek Chub five hook minnows

  • Creek Chub intro boxes

  • Rhodes lures and boxes

  • South Bend underwater minnows

  • South Bend Combination minnow

  • Heddon 800, 900, 700

  • Heddon Giant Vamp

  • Creek Chub Bug Wiggler

  • Creek Chub Wee Dee, Sucker

  • Heddon "Woodpecker"

  • Heddon "Dowagiac" underwater

  • Heddon 5 hk. Slopenose

  • Heddon Killer

  • Heddon six hook 300

  • Heddon Dummy Double

  • Heddon Black Sucker

  • Heddon Coast minnow

  • Heddon Luny frog in red and white

  • Muskys from major companies

  • Heddon ice decoy

  • "Experts" any... Woods, Clark, etc.

  • Moonlight underwater minnow

  • Pflueger Trory minnow

  • Kent Floaters with carved eye

  • Arbogast Spotted Ape Jitterbug

  • Pflueger Monarch minnows

  • Pflueger metalized minnows

  • Pflueger baby Surprise minnow

  • Shakespeare Musky lures

  • Shakespeare Sure Lure

  • Shakespeare Albany lure

  • Shakespeare "high forehead" minnow

  • Shakespeare Whirlwind

  • Shakespeare 03

  • Shakespeare Kazoo box

  • Shakespeare Barnacle Bill

  • Shakespeare Tarpalunge G.E.

  • Worden Combination minnow

  • Min-Buck minnow, SB

  • South Bend Truck-Oreno

  • Howe's Vacuum bait

  • Glass minnow tubes

  • Most early Misc. Minnows

  • Anything pre-1920 NIB

  • North Channel minnow

  • Red Fin minnow

  • Michigan Life-Like

  • Lane's Automatic

  • Joe Pepper lures

  • Miller's Reversible

  • Clinton Wilt baits

  • Winchester's with exc. paint

  • Most Introductory boxes

  • Rhodes Mechanical frog or box

  • Shakespeare Musky wood box

  • Octopus minnow

  • Jersey Expert

  • Bing's Nemahbin minnow

  • Charmers

  • Rotary Marvel

  • A "real" Helgramite

  • Red Fin minnow by  Donaly Baits

  • Holzwarth minnow

  • K & K Animated minnow (exc. cond.)

  • Chippewa Musky size

  • Harkauf Wooden minnow

  • Kellman bugs

  • Pfeiffer glass minnow tubes

  • Rhodes Perfect Casting Bait

  • Welch and Graves glass tube

  • Wilcox Wiggler

  • Heddon advertizing and displays

  • Salesman sample cases pre-1940

  • Heddon Airplane (real one)

  • Pardee Minnow

  • Haskell Minnow (real one)

  • Pepper minnows or any kind

  • North Channel or Delavan minnow

  • Nemo Revolving minnow

  • Decker underwater minnow

  • Eclipse minnow

  • Smith minnow

  • The Chautaugua minnow

  • Pontiac minnows

  • Ewert's artificial bait

IN GENERAL...:

  • Most post 1940 lures

  • Heddon post 1940 catalogs

  • Fake Heddon handcarved frogs

  • Heddon L-rig hardware

  • Heddon "spook" anything

  • Pflueger lures in Neverfail hardware

  • Shakespeare Flat plate hardware

  • Shakespeare orange and blue boxes

  • Heddon lures in green crackle back

  • Heddon lures in rainbow

  • Heddon Punkinseeds in general

  • Heddon plastic Punkinseeds

  • Heddon up leaping Bass boxes

  • Creek Chub tack eye baits

  • Creek Chub in general after 1930

  • Creek Chub in Pikie finish

  • Heddon 200's or 210's

  • Heddon Multiple minnows

  • Heddon Tad Polly

  • South Bend red and white anything

  • South Bend rainbow

  • Heddon Vamps

  • Creek Chub Wiggler

  • Creek Chub Ding Bat

  • Heddon Artistic minnow

  • Heddon fat bodies in 100 or 150

  • Heddon Crab Wigglers

  • Heddon Lucky 13

  • Heddon Luny frog in frog

  • Heddon anything in surface rig

  • Heddon spook anything

  • Heddon River Runt spooks

  • Heddon SOS

  • Heddon Torpedo

  • Heddon Crazy Crawler

  • Heddon Gamefisher

  • Heddon mouse

  • Heddon Feathertail

  • Heddon Weedless Widow

  • Paw Paw Wottafrog

  • Paw Paw in general

  • Kent floater with Neverfail hardware

  • Pflueger Surprise minnow

  • Pal-o-mines

  • Rush Tango's in general

  • Shakespeare Revolutions (late)

  • Shakespeare Evolutions (late)

  • Shakespeare Slim Jim (late)

  • Shakespeare Waukazoo

  • Shakespeare Jim Dandy lures

  • Shakespeare Tarpalunge P.E.

  • South Bend Whirl-Oreno

  • South Bend Vacuum Bait

  • South Bend Bass-Oreno

  • Wilson Wobbler

  • Decker top water revolving bait

  • Flood minnows

  • Most Florida baits

  • Pflueger Phantoms

  • Winchester Wobblers

  • Tad Polly Intro box

  • Shakespeare Floating Spinner

  • Carter's Dunks lures

  • Bite-em-Bate

  • Water Scout

  • Fake Helgramite

  • Detroit Glass minnow

  • Most rubber baits

  • South Bend flyrod lures

  • Du Getum's

  • The "reel" lure

  • Bud Stewart baits

  • Shur-Strike lures

  • L&S plastic lures

  • Thoren Minnow Chaser

  • Almost anything by Arbogast

  • Devon minnows

  • Most lures by Foss

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