I ran across this great history of the O’Shaugnessy fish hook in Limerick; Its History and Antiquities by Maurice Lenihan (Dublin, 1866). He notes that the once great reputation of Limerick hooks had all but died by the 1860s, with only one master hook maker left. It’s a fabulous history and I’ve not seen this […]
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Jamison Barbless Hooks How Smiling Bill Jamison Made His Barbless Jamison Barbless Hooks; It must not be supposed that it was an easy thing to design this simple hook. “Bill,” like thousands of others, had an exaggerated idea of the power of a fish to throw a hook. He thought it would take some unusual […]
Samuel Allcock & Company The following history of the venerable British firm of Samuel Allcock was published in the 1888 edition of Wyman’s commercial encyclopædia of leading manufacturers of Great Britain. Allcock was one of the largest — if not the largest — makers of fish hooks in the world and branched out to produce materials […]