19th Century Fishing Line
19th Century Fishing Line – Fishing lines came in a variety of packaging styles in the late 1800s besides being wound on wooden spools (which were introduced in the late 1870s). It was very common to find lines sold in “HANKS” (wrapped in elongated coils with the final wraps around the middle of those bundled coils similar in appearance to a hangman’s noose – see the green lines top right between the boxes), Coiled on “CARDBOARD SPOOLS” (See the DEERWOOD brand top left), and in “LOOSE COILS” that were then placed inside cardboard boxes, or on “WINDERS” (card board sleeves with lines wrapped end to end as shown in the bottom center and top center) and on “BLOCKS” (the white wooden frame at the center with the paper label wrapped around the wooden frame) and on the “CARDBOARD TUBES” ( see the small green cardboard tube with the line wrapped around the tube which then goes inside the green box – bottom left of center). Most all of these 1900s styles of packaging will usually have some very attractive early style fishing related graphic images and early style lettering with Printer’s fancy design flourishes too.
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