Tight Lines Tuesday Seminole

by John Etchieson

Tight Lines Tuesday Seminole; This “SEMINOLE” brand silk fishing line manufactured in 1929 by the G H Mansfield company (1866 – 933) honors both the Seminole tribe of Florida and the memory of Chief Tiger Tail aka Thlocklo Tustenuggee (1790 – 1882) a native American Indian who was one of the most prominent Seminole leaders in the Second Seminole War (1838 – 1842). It has been more than 85 years since this G H Mansfield “SEMINOLE” brand silk fishing line was first manufactured and there are today less than a dozen of these that are known to have survived and being held in collections making it a very rare tackle treasure to find.

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