Antique Lure Collectibles

Shakespeare Fishing Lures and Boxes: Page One

  • Rhodes frog in wood box

  • 64 Musky, white

  • 64 Musky, green silver

  • 51 Musky, red floater

  • 3 hook Rhodes minnow in early box

  • Revolution in black intro box

  • Shur Lure in black intro box

  • Worden Bucktail in black intro box

  • 5 hook sienna minnow

  • 5 hook high forehead in picture box

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c. 1909 Shakespeare Rhodes Mechanical Swimming Frog in the wood box

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Rare Shakespeare Musky #64, all white, in flat plate hardware and plain props. C. 1916. 

Lure is excellent minus/very good plus condition due to a couple of minor varnish and paint flakes, but it's one rare piece.

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Rare Shakespeare Musky #64, green back, silver belly and red side, in flat hardware, plain props, C. 1916. 

Lure is excellent minus condition.  Noting pointers on back.

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Extremely rare c. 1907- 8 Shakespeare #51 Musky floater in red with sweeping yellow hand painted gill marks, gem clip hardware, B props.  Condition: excellent minus/very good plus, noting scrape on belly.  To my knowledge there are only four or five of these lures in existence.

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Rare Shakespeare Rhodes underwater minnow,  yellow in the extremely rare correct maroon box. C. 1907. 

Lure is in excellent plus condition, box is excellent plus.  (Any Rhodes minnow in the original box is beyond rare.  In this condition...it's amazing.)

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Rare c. 1904 Shakespeare Revolution, painted body "Yellow Fellow", in the correct black and silver picture box.

Lure is in very good condition, box is very good plus.  (A rare package.)

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Rare c. 1904 Shakespeare Sure Lure in the original black and silver intro box. 

The lure brittle hard rubber skirt ,which was fractured, has been 'glued' back together..  Box is in excellent condition.

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Rare c. 1904 Shakespeare Worden Bucktail Spinner in the picture box.  Included is the correct rare paperwork for this lure and box.

Lure and paper are excellent.  Box is excellent minus.

The rarity here is in the combination, the paper of which there are only a couple of examples in existence, and the box.

 

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Shakespeare five hook minnow in sienna crackleback.  Flat plate hardware, plain props. 

Lure is in excellent minus condition.

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Rare Shakespeare five hook minnow in yellow perch transitional high forehead ,'B' props, gem clip hardware, in correct marked maroon picture box. C. 1909.  Paper catalog is excellent.

Lure is in excellent minus condition, box is very good plus.  Paper brochure is included.

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