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My ABU Wishlist
More Immediate
Purchases/Trades
Rare piece of Aussie Fishing History donated to Byske Sportfishing Museum.
See my spare
ABU Catalogs for swap or trade at bottom of page!
ABU/Heddon
Hilo River Runt Spook in the colours D M T XRS LYS BGL
ABU Prototypes, any type |
Killers,
colour like XBW,XBS, XRY, D, T
ABU Tournament Caster
|
Record 300
Dark Turquoise
Green 1300
Red Record 1300
Purple
Record 1560
Gold
Record 1610
Ivory
Record 1900
Record 1900 yellow spacers
Fake Record called a Cadilac
450/500/Record Spinning reel
German-made Sportex ABU Spinning Reel
Italian made Zangi ABU/Record 888 Spinning reel
Suveran Spinning 1000
Any Cutaway ABU sales reel
Record Fly reel box
Caster Duet Rod
Outsourced Horgard Split cane Rod, Norway (fly or baitcast)
|
Morrum Ambassadeur (Zipi
tunedJapan)
Ambassadeur 4500 D , 6000D (prototypes)
Ambassadeur 5500 G
Ambassadeur 5500 CDL BASS
Ambassadeur 6500 C Black
Ambassadeur 8000 J, 9000 J, 10
000 J
Teak
boxed Ambassadeur 1500/2500
Abumatic 82,
135, 155, 175, 180
Any
cut-away reel to show internal workings
Unpublished ABU paperwork/scans
of prototypes or production items to publish and share with ABU fans
worldwide.
As an example of the Companies that ABU
came to dominate, any single reel from a different Swedish manufacturer
such as Ryds, Malt Blom , Craftsman
Tournament Caster Combo illustrated above
ABU sheath-knife,
pocket-knife.
1975 Pack of ABU Playing cards
ABU
leather Belt and buckle
|
A handful of all
size mixed screws for Records and ABU's would be wonderful to find.
Record Sea Grass Box for any casting
reel (Green or
Blue).
Record or ABU
crockery jug or plate or soup/desert bowl
Ambassadeur Neck Tie
I am looking for
several
ABU Lure Posters
as well as
this Garcia Lure book.
Record or ABU Lures that I still need to
find/buy are:
Kelly/ Skeden
Ideal-X
Pendeldraget (any size colour version)
Joker (with eyes)
Pike
Dubblespinnaren (any colour)
Kelly
Borge (single
hook)
Skal-blanket
Burke branded lures as USA sold items (soft rubber designs)
Heddon / ABU dual branded Hilo, any colour
Lures to exchange/swap include a large number of
vintage ABU items
ABU Catalogs Wanted
I am always looking
for a pre 1952 copy of Napp och Nytt .
I have very many
Tight Lines
that are missing from my collection also viz earlier than and including
56, 57, 58, 60, 61,63,
As well as
English and
Swedish, I have collected a
single ABU catalog printed in/for Japanese, Norwegen, Danish, German,
Finnish, Ireland and Belgium/Netherlands so a
single copy of any other country from any year would be very much appreciated to
help create yet another webpage showing the World penetration of the ABU name.
particularly looking for Spanish, French,
Polish, Russian, Italian.
Are there any others?
ABU Catalogs that I have in double or more to
trade/swap are:
Samples can be seen
here
Swedish Napp och Nytt
80, 84, 2004, 3X 2005, 2X 2006, 2007, 2X 2008, 3X 2009, 2010
Finnish
ABU NYTT NAPPAA 82
2X 2007
Danish Nap og NYT
76 , 83, 2004
Petri Heil ABU
73 , 83, 85
English Tight Lines
68, 82, 96
So if
someone wants an “instant” collection covering 30+ different years between the
50’s 60’s 70’s 80’s 90’s and this century, between 1957 and 2008 , they would
have a great start for their ABU
research.
Images are
generally
the same whatever country just the
text/language difference but helpfully the colour
weight lengths of lures is universal, like wise technical descriptions of
bearings, gear ratios, capacities etc for rods, reels are also easy to
understand despite different languages.
I presently have used doubles in ABU reels such as tear drop Black Ambassadeur 1000, Zebco
Cardinal 7, Delfin Pimpel for swap as well
as number of lures eg Toby, Shiner, Kynoch, Rakan, Egons, Snoky, Hilo, killer Atom, Perka
These are
NOT for SALE, rather
available they are for Trade or Swapping
for
items I need. Do write if anything interests you and we may strike a deal!
This list will no doubt extend but hopefully be reduced
but generally change over time.