The collection

The collection comprises of the Richard Wheatley Museum with it's fly boxes, fly wallets or books, minnow and tackle boxes, printing blocks, traditional and modern fly boxes plus other angling tackle made by the company since 1860.

Richard Wheatley made and badged fly boxes for a number of the big names retailing fishing tackle including :-

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

Orvis

W.R. Pape

The Tackle Shop

Jim Teeny

Thomas & Thomas

Wallace Doak

Wyers Freres Redditch & Paris

See the page marked Hardy's, Cummins and others

Japaned boxes.

Whilst P.D. Mallochs patented the first fly clip in 1886 Richard Wheatley began to make a similar clip fly box around the same time. These boxes filled the space between wallets or books and the modern alloy boxes - included in this section is the 1904 patent clip. For completeness sake we also have a number of lure or minnow boxes.

Tin Plate Boxes

Sold under the name of The Loch Leven Eyed Fly Boxes, The Hockley Minnow Box or with a plain black or crackle finish.

Alloy boxes

Produced from the start of the 20th Century. These were unmarked in the beginning but had a number of different logos and marks until the Silmalloy logo became established Clip, compartment and minnow boxes are also included as are Wheatley Kilroy and the modern Osprey ones

Bulk fly storage including Reservoirs, cabinets, Stock boxes, retail displays, tying cabinets and boxes and assorted similar items

Wallets there are a number of leather wallets from the past and up to date.

Wooden fly boxes and Early and modern plastic boxes.

Accessories marketed or made by Richard Wheatley & Son

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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