The Richard wheatley Museum
Richard Wheatley Museum
Welcome to the virtual Richard Wheatley Museum. This is a free resource for anyone who collects, deals in or uses vintage fishing tackle made or sold by Richard Wheatley. Here you will find the history of the Company and their products made in leather, steel, wood, plastic & aluminium. Richard Wheatley led the way when they started and continue to innovate with their modern products
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Wheatley Museum contains the history of the Company
Early Boxes contains Black & Brown Japaned, Cast Boxes & Fly wallet
Clips Boxes are listed in numerical order
Other Alloy Boxes contains Compartment, Kilroy, Magnetic & other alloy boxes
Miscellany has dating boxes, foams, finishes, fly tying & Angler's Sundries
Special Modern Boxes has commemorative plastic & Translux box
Hardy Cummins has Security Grip, Unthank & other retailers boxes
Minnow Boxes contains Hockley Minnows
Loch Leven Boxes
Contacts has Sales and acknowledgements
Grafx Boxes by Richard Wheatley
In these boxes the design is anodised into the metal ensuring that the picture does not scratch in normal use
Proto types of the first anodised box with a matt surface. Showing logo trials. The final box had a shinny surface and is now almost sold out and follows the format of the box on the right.
Simms brown trout by De Young and a brown trout protype that didn't go into production
Rarity value is based on the simple system below
A - this boxes are either still available via Richard Wheatley, other fishing tackle dealers.
C- box is common & turns up regularly at vintage tackle dealers, fairs or auctions incl. ebay
S- this box is scare but turn up on occasions
R- this box is rare
RR- these are very rare
E - this is exceptional, extremely rare and few examples are known.
Remember Richard Wheatley Vintage Angling Equipment is worth what someone will pay and the contents of the box maybe worth more than the box
For visitor's from the USA please visit www.rec.com Wheatley's agent in the United States of America
Simms rainbow trout box based on a De Young painting. This is a 4 3/4 inch box (the others are all 6 inch. Missing from this page is the 43/4 and 6 inch Rainbow trout boxes
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