Hardy's Cummins & others

Hardy's Security Clips were fitted into Wheatley boxes, they can be found in 5,6,7, and 8 inch boxes and with or without the Hardy plaque rivetted to the top. The lozenge, large Made in England and Silmalloy logos can be found. The boxes all seem to be rare, the 6 inch seems to be the least rare.

Can you help with this - if you have a box, what logo does it have, and does it have a Hardys plaque. Hardy catalogue page on left

Wheatley made the "Unthank" boxes for W.J. Cummins of Bishop Auckland in County Durham. They seem to mostly be based on the 6 inch box although a small number of 5 inch and cast boxes can be found. These are still being worked on and rarity plus detailed description will follow.

Richard Wheatley made and sold fishing tackle to most of the major fishing tackle retailers. For most companies these were Wheatley standard products which were customised by the addition of a label, script or engarved name for the retailers. Some Companies actually renamed Wheatleys goods when they were advertised in the retailers catalogue.

Some of the Companies which customised and sold Richard Wheatley products include:-

Abercrombis & Fitch, S Allcock & Co Ltd, Angling Services, Army & Navy, Atkinson Sport Depot, Browns of Aberdeen, A Carter & Co., Cogswell & Harrison, W.J. Cummings, Farlow & Co., Foster Bros, Hardy Bros., Edgar Harrison Exeter, Haynes & Sons, Cork,C Innes Oxford,

John MacPherson, Alex Martin, P.D. Malloch, Henry Monk Chester, R.C. Moore, Orvis, W.R. Pape, The Tackle Shop, Jim Teeny, Thomas & Thomas, Wallace Doak and Wyers Freres Redditch & Paris

Later special and customised boxes are not included in this list but are found under modern boxes.

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