Tight Lines Tuesday Biltwell
by John Etchieson
Tight Lines Tuesday Biltwell; 91 years ago in 1927 the G. H. Mansfield Company (est. 1821) offered the BILTWELL brand silk bait casting line with an attractive label featuring one of America’s dreadnought battleships that were easily recognizable due to their two lattice masts, sometimes called “cage masts”, which were favored for their light weight since a ship should not be top heavy. During WW I the dreadnought fleet of USS battleships (Delaware, Florida, Utah, Wyoming, Arkansas, New York, Texas, Nevada, Oklahoma and Arizona) served with the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet after US entry into the war, so this fishing line label image would have signified strength as well as victory and patriotism to the American fishermen of the late 1920’s.
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