1962 ABU Tight Lines

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1963 ABU Tight Lines 

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Many thanks to Hans van der Pauw  in Holland, for advice on ABU's  non printing of the 1963 Tight Lines.

TL an> 1963 does NOT exist. After TL 1962 the TL 1964 was released, probably a short time before the Napp och Nytt 1964 catalog,  For For TL 1964 they used the cover and contents of Napp och Nytt 1963

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1964 ABU Tight Lines

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My personal connection with ABU started via lures from 1966 and the Tight lines catalogs available in local tackle stores.

This trade catalog below ,  I never knew about until now,  when I just bought it from Anders in Sweden.

In it is a lot of info (despite being in Swedish) , I learn that the Toby BGL I loved using was just released this year. I was using it and the Hilo as my first (ABU) lure experiences.

I would have to wait till next year to get a hold of the fabulous ABU Killer aka Rebel Company from USA which Len Borgstrom bought!

Click the cover image  to enjoy all these pages

A Unique  1963 ABU Products Catalog .....appearing soon!

Images kindly supplied by Sven Eriksson Gothenburg

Some fine examples of the Swedish ABU Tackle Catalogues from the start in 1948 are wonderful to read and imagine flicking through the pages and making tackle decisions of the year. I own many but  friend Mikael Risberg  has kindly let me use his previously scanned Napp och Nytt front covers to to save me many hours work!

I now  own most copies of the English Tight Lines and  Swedish Napp och Nytt catalogues and have some in double  and would love to swap my doubles for ABU Record items of interest to me.

I am intrigued at knowing the full extent of ABU's global domination of the fishing world brought about by the production and distribution of their free catalogues. English, Irish Swedish, German, Netherlands, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, nt>French, Spanish,  Polish, Czech and Russian are some  I have heard of. I would love to secure a copy of these highlighted in red to share here. Perhaps there are more?

          

English                      Swedish

                  

Norwegian                     FinnFinnish

 Italian catalog named Tight Lines   

 German Petri Heil

Friend Christian, ex-patriot Swede living in Austria, has sent me this collection of German language ABU catalogues.

                                                             

                         
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           French   first appeared as Bonne Peche in 1956 then under ABU Year Dates later, below
Note F on on spine of 1982 issue



and no F as this 85 catalog  is a thinner folded and not  spined catalog

  

The Dutch/Belgium issue was built on
the German style Petri Heil catalog



You will notice some minor variations in these 4 Dutch Petri Heil catalog
 


The Irish or Eire issue
was identical to the English Tight Lines with the exception of Eire being printed on the spine



 Help finding one copy of these countries below  would be appreciated

          

       

Portuguese to appear here soon    

  

          Spanish   and     Russian (needed)

       

           Polish (needed)           Czech (needed)

Some ABU Catalog anomolies herean>

 

Just want to tell about the Norwegian Napp og Nytt catalogues.The first Norwegian catalog came out in 1957.But the front page on the 1957 and 59 catalogs was with Swedish text at the frontpage, inside it was Norwegian text. The 58 catalog was with Norwegian text at the front and inside the catalog.

STRANGE! WHY I WONDER?

 From 1960 and today there is all in Norwegian. The catalogs on the picture are Norwegian catalogs with swedish text at the frontpage.I don't have the catalog from 58 in Norwegian text.

Bye again,

Mvh  Trond

Note:  These English French and German variations of 1956 ABU Catalogs and 1955 Rely on Record Special catalogs marketed in England and Spain.

More interesting info on French ABU catalogs has come to light due to my friend Jim Partridge (UK).

 At one time the French ABU catalogs were named Bonne Peche (1971)  and later they were named in English "Tight Lines" being published in French language up to at least 1985

Likewise my Japanese copy from the same anniversary year 1971, it titled on cover as Tight Lines but published in Japanese.

I guess English was thought to be  the universal language, but it does not explain why German, always named Petri Heil and other from Europe has their distinctive catalog names.

Some general purpose Outdoors products companies like the one below sold quality shooting and fishing equipment and issued their  own dedicated catalogs

 

Did you know a German or Austrian company by the name of Roessler actually produced a high quality fishing catalog in 70's and 80's which featured (independent from the Swedish catalogs) their own formatted advertizements for our beloved ABU products?
Look for high quality scans of relevant pages from 1978 issue here, soon as time permits.

More here later courtesy of Jan Eggers contacts!

Click on Roessler Cover

Catalogs mentioning ABU were also produced by thean> Kilwell Company in New Zealand

 

Please share you findings on ABU catalogs here.