The Best Iron Fish & Eel Spear Collections

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The perfect present for that hard-to-buy person on your gift list! NEW COPY OF AN IN DEPTH BOOK ON WROUGHT IRON FISHING SPEARS. Mint condition copy of Ice Fishing Spears in original package. First Edition. 460 wrought iron fish and eel spear gig photos; 312 pages, 56 in color. Hardbound, 1993 edition cloth cover. Beautifully done and profusely illustrated with outstanding spears pictured in both color and black & white (also early patent line drawings). Easy to read and yet very informative. Use it to judge how good that spear is made and to decide if it is a big sturgeon spear, a medium sized walleye spear, a smaller perch fishing spear or a specialized eel spear. Topics include spear collecting, displaying, photographing, dating and many more. Figures compare design and manufacturing details to give basis for judging darkhouse spear quality. Collections and collectors featured include: Gerald Adams (MI), Ron Adamson (MN), Bob Montgomery (MI), Frank Baron (MI), Charlie Hart(MI), Otto Bishop (WI), the Kimball family (WI), Dave Kober (MI) and more. Wrought iron spear collecting is growing fast ... this is THE BOOK on the subject. Note, the original list price for this book is $90.00. No Reserve on this offering. A perfect gift for the OUTDOORSMAN, FISHERMAN, BLACKSMITH OR COLLECTOR in the family!