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Record ABU Lures by the Decade 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's
Plankton Favorit
The lure first appeared in 1945 and lasted till 1961. The 20g/50mm size was the only one produced at this time in S, G, K, Z, Cr, S/G. S/K, Pm, and SV. These continued until 1961 according to Steen and 1973 according to Goran. I have know way of determining with catalogs I have.
At either later date 62 or 73, the 3 weight range Plankton appeared. These were 7g/35mm, 12g/47mm and 20g/50mm long and were around until 1975 . The colour range was seriously reduced. The 12g and 20g were produced in S, G, Z, Cr, Pm, D, T, SV and BGL while the 7g was also produced in K .
Some of my examples of ABU Favorit in sizes 12g and 20g (47 and 50mm) are below
Note that the older examples are unmarked for weight and on the right is in the rare AK colour, while the others are 70's era K and S
I only have this one 7g model and would like the other 8 colours
The first two are early models and 7 more colours are needed.
The modern 3 to the right need 6 more mates of the missing colours.
As yAs you can see above I found a Plankton Favorit in the colour AK too.
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Steen
A rare factory prototype that never made it to production and catalog is the Grey version shared here by Tomba
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Record ABU Lures by the Decade 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's
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