Tight Lines Tuesday Simmons

by John Etchieson

Tight Lines Tuesday Simmons; Edward Campbell Simmons (1839 – 1920) founded the famous and nationally successful St. Louis based Simmons Hardware Company (1874 – 1940) and began offering fishing tackle in their catalogs at least as early as 1879. Simmons had a U S Patent and Trademark Office registered company motto – “The Recollection of Quality Remains Long after the Price is Forgotten”.which was incorporated into the “S” letter logo on the label of this “Simmons Dependable Tackle” silk fishing line spool (a rare Celluloid covered wooden spool that has a black pearl luster finish) that was made from 1931 – 1939 for the Simmons Hardware company by the Newton Line company (est. 1915) of Homer, New York. Very few of these silk line spools from 75+ years ago have survived and are considered to be quite rare today.

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