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My ABU Wishlist
More Immediate
Needs/Purchases/Trades
See my spare
ABU items to swap or trade here
ABU Tournament Caster
Whilst I should be very happy to have
MIB Record Ambassadeur 5000 and 6000 in my display, I guess the only way a
Record 5000 Black or
Green
Ambassadeur or 5500 CDL BASS or 5500 G
Champagne Gold will
realistically come to this collection would be by a very greatfully
acknowledged donation or bequeath as their value (purchase) of
these reels is beyond the means of most. Maybe this may happen one day.
Dark Turquoise
Green 1300
Red Record 1300
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
Allen and Holm Red or Yellow Spinning
Reel
BlacBlack ABU 222
Outsourced "Horgard" Norsk or Sjoa Split cane
Baitcasting Rod, or spinning rod Norway rong>
1975 Pack of ABU Playing cards
ABU
leather Belt and buckle
ABU sheath-knife,
pocket-knife.
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Morrum Ambassadeur (Zipi
tuned Japan)
Ambassadeur 4500 D , 6000D (prototypes)
Record Ambassadeur 5000 SG
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 and
other models ending in a 2, 175, 180
Any Any
cut-away ABU Cardinal or Ambassadeur reel showing internal workings
Unpublished ABU paperwork/scans
of prototypes or production items to publish and share with ABU fans
worldwide.rong>
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 Gothia rod
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A handful of all
size mixed screws for Records and ABU's would be wonderful to find.
Standard Record Blue box for Record 1300, 1400, 1800, 2500 reels
Record Sea Grass Box for any casting
reel (Green or
Blue).
Record or ABU
crockery jug or plate or soup/desert bowl or cutlery from the old ABU days.
An ordinary Ambassadeur
reel Neck Tie
My very special ultra rare
Record Fisken Gold
with Laurels tie from Len Borgstom is here
I am looking for
several
ABU Lure Posters
Record or ABU Lures that I still need to
find/buy
either
boxed or
loose, condition unimportant are:
7g&n7g Killer BGL
12g Killer XRY and G/>
15g Killer S
ABU/Heddon
Hilo River Runt Spook
boxes # 9440
ABU ABU Prototypes, any type,
size, colour, sample above
I am looking for any SV (black and white skeleton) coloured lure
as well as Pm, Am and Ak any type/size
About 30 of the
quite common Toby
7g S/G
10g S/K,
12g D, S/G, S/K, Fly silver
15g Roding
18g S/G
20g D, S/G, S/K. Fly Silver
28g D, T, BGL, S/G, S/K,
Tiger yellow
28g Vass Z
30g Salmo S/G, K, D,an>
HI-Lo
Pink white
prototype, any non Patent 5 position bib
Killer
XBW in
first old smooth plastic (all three sizes)
XRY 2
smallest sizes
BGL middle
size
Rakan
XBG both
small and large
Amulette
7g K
Ninette
7g Cr, pm,
S/G, S/K
12g All
except Z, K
18g All
except S
Island
7g Z, Pm,
T, BGL, Cr
12g Pm, T,
Cr, S/G
18g D, Pm,
BGL, Cr
Hazard
7g All
except G, K
12g All
except S, K, G
18g All
except S, K, G, Z
Kelly/ Skeden, All colours
except S, G, Z
Ideal-X ,
any
please ...
Pendeldraget (any size colour version)
Joker
7g all
except S
12g need S/G,
T, L,
18g all
except S, K, D
Pike any please..
Dubblespinnaren (any colour except S, K, Z)
also some missing foiled
treble hooks
Kelly
Borge (single
hook...any)
Skal-blanket,
need Gold, K, P/K
Heddon / ABU dual branded Hilo, Sonic
boxed any colour
Lures to exchange/swap include a large number of
vintage ABU items
ABU Catalogs Wanted
&nbs I am always looking
for ABU catalogs
I now have all Napp och Nytt .
I have very many ong>
Tight Lines
that are missmissing from my collection also viz earlier than and including 56, 57, 60,
As well as nt>
English and
Swedish, I have collected a
single ABU catalog printed in/for Japanese, Norwegen, Danish, German,
Finnish, Ireland and Belgium/Netherlands so& 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
French,
Polish, Russian, Czech.
Are there any others?an>
I also need any of these
ABU News booklets other than this
1976 example
Do
write if
you have anything of possible interest to me and we may strike a deal!
This list will no doubt extend but hopefully be reduced
but generally change over time.