FEATURED AT LANG'S 2010 FALL AUCTION...
VIRTUAL Catalogued Two Session Auction - Saturday & Sunday, November 6 & 7, 2010

LIVE AUDIENCE DISCOVERY AUCTION
Friday, November 5
Discovery Auction to be held at:
The Holiday Inn ~ Boxborough, Massachusetts
Phone (978) 263-8701 - Route 495 Exit 28

REELS: Only Known George G. Gates Salmon Reel, JVH Perforated, Philbrook & Paine Marbleized, EVH No.3 1/2 Peerless, Bing Crosby's Fin-Nor Wedding Cake, Bogdan Fly & Salmon, Zwarg Fly & Salmon, Leonard Mills/JVH Salmon, Abu 5000 Deluxe Presentation, Hardy Zane Grey Big Game, Scarce Conroy, Allcock Aerials, Hardys, Saracione, JVH Scott & Richards, Crook, Fin-Nor, German Silver Billinghurst, EVH 355 Peerless, Mako, Abel, EVH 504 Salmon, Mitchell Reels including: 300X in Rare Red Top Box, Quartz 330 in Case, etc., Heddon, Talbot Eli, Experimental Fin-Nor Big Game, Etc. Indiana Reel Collection: Extensive collection with examples from the Sheridan Jones Collection including reels in only known boxes.

LURES: Only Known Michigan Life Like Minnow Picture Box, Only Known Baby Comstock Flying Hellgrammite, Pardee River Minnow, Moonlight Collection including One-of-a Kinds & Very Rare Lures/Boxes: Only Known Moonlight 3 Pack Boxes, Purple Musky Pikaroon Box, 3 & 5 hook Floating Minnows, Huge Musky Little Wonder, etc., Collection of Rare Joe Pepper Lures including Uncataloged Colors, Musky and Flyrod size examples, etc., Horrocks-Ibbotson Shmoo Collection, Chautauqua Trolling Bait, Chapman Threaded Minnow, Rhead Frog, Only Known 1st South Bend Box, SB Muskie Trolling Min-Buck, Rare 2 hook Charmer, Charmer Box, Detroit Minnow Tube Picture Box, Decker Underwater, 1904 Heddon #150 Underwater Minnow, Great Early Folk Art, Strike-Master, Luny Frog Collection, Creek Chub 3 & 5 hk Minnows, Shakespeare Minnow Picture Boxes, Tempter Frog, Bobbin Bass Bait, Keeling, Eureka Wiggler, Ketch-Em Minnow Box, Shur-Strike, Paw Paw Casters, Heddon Pine Tree Box, Basser Spook, SB Musky Casting Minnow, Musky Surfusser, #900 Swimming Minnow, Heddon Fish Decoy In Box, no chin Zaragossa in Box, Younger-Oreno, South Bend 6 pack Boxes, Dragonfly Vacuum in Box, Saltwater Rush Tango, SB Frog Woodpecker, Moonlight Dreadnought, Burtis Trolling Bait Box, Uncataloged Muskie Surf-Oreno, Welles Patent Plug, Lauffer's Scientific, Woods Experts, Walton Speed Bait, South Bend Christmas Box, Hanson's Irresistible & Pull Me Slow, Boulton Bass Hog, Hendryx Sample Board, Rare Creek Chub DeLuxe Six Assortment & Select Six Assortment Boxes, Heddon Slopenose Picture Boxes, Earliest Shakespeare Wood Revolution, Rare Shur-Strike 3 Pack Box, Holzapfel Mushroom Bait, Worden's Minnow, Etc.

RODS: Several Paul Young Rods, including: 6'3" Midge, 7'6" Perfectionist, 7'6" Martha Marie, 8' Super Grade, etc., Hawes, Payne, Leonard, Orvis including Experimental Rods, 6' Marvin Hedge, Antique Chubb Silkien, 5' 6" T&T Custom, F.E. Thomas, Kosmic, 7' 6" Garrison, Pezon, Heddon, Russ Peak, 6' Goodwin Granger, Edwards, etc.

CREELS: Lawrence, McMonies, Clark, Peters, Schnell, Nelson, also: Turtle, Whitney Sporting Goods, Hardy, Native American, etc.

DECOYS: Christiansen Collection including: fish decoys, bird carvings, Wall Display, Game Box, Vases, full size Poker Table & 4 Chairs with carvings, Decorated Paddle, S&P Shakers, Aquarium Fish, etc., Peterson, Snow, Rousseau, Ragan, Fairfield, Cross, Trombley, Janner, Furton, etc.

Nice selection of BOOKS: including a small Collection of 1st ed. Derrydale Press, George Bird Evans Complete Set, Johnson Forest, Lake and River, etc.

FLIES: The most comprehensive collection of flies to come to Lang's, including a Collection of Rube Cross Flies, Collection of Charles DeFeo flies, Fly Collection and personal tackle from the late Northwest Fly Fishing Photographer Ralph Wahl, Series of Schmookler/Kelson Fly Displays, Carrie Stevens, Hewitt, Rhead, Schwiebert, Doak, Megan Boyd, Martinez, Dette, Grant, Wulff, Schmookler Fly/Butterfly Displays, MacPherson, Malloy, Ververka, Darbee, Jennings, Rogan, Jorgensen, Arseneault, Costello, Gruber, Flick, Bickison, Bailey, Hardy, Knudson, Cohan, etc.

ORIGINAL ART: Paintings: Important Von Beust Bristol Rods Advertising Painting (former John Delph Collection), H.A. Driscole Trout, Reneson Grouse Watercolor, Rare S.F. Denton Watercolors, Great Beecham Bear Painting, E. Locke Fish with Rod & Reel Scene, Early Grayling Oil on Canvas, etc.

MISCELLANEOUS: Early Bristol Rods Advertising Poster (former John Delph Collection), Rare Creek Chub Die Cut Store Display Sign, Rare Bristol Rod Sign, Bobbers, Rare Spalding Advertising Sign, Military, Early Cabo Blanco Fishing Club Awards, Trophies, Photos, etc., 1906 & 1914 Horton/Bristol Calendar, 1932 Roland Clark Etchings, 1930 Non-Resident Hunting Button, Forest, Fish and Game Commission Folio, Early Avery Tournament Fishing Scale, Minnow Buckets & Glass Traps, Crawford Etchings, Footer Mounts & Art, Early Catalogs, Duck Decoys, Canoe Cups, Vom Hofe & Marble's Gaffs, Evans Fish Trap, Early Ashaway Photo, Early Pleissner Prints, South Bend Store Display Sign, Early Blown Hatchery Jar, 1890's NY Fisheries, Game & Forest Reports, Fly Chests & Reservoirs, NY Anglers' Club items, Paw Paw Store Display Rack, Early Nets, and much more. Lots of last minute additions!

Lang's Specialty Auctions
September 19, 2009 - Online
Since 1990, Lang's Auction has maintained the status of the world's largest and most respected fishing tackle auction, producing million dollar+ sales in this specialized field. Because many sporting enthusiasts also collect in other antique categories, Lang's has had repeated requests to expand into other areas with the same honesty and integrity our customers have come to expect. In response, we proudly introduce Lang's Specialty Auctions first Antiques and Collectibles Estate. This quality eclectic September 19, 2009 sale includes baseball, tin toys, bronze statues, costume jewelry, dolls, character toys, mechanical iron banks, ephemera, marionettes, modernistic, painting on porcelain, letter openers, leaded glass shades, carved ivory, Disneyania, original art, etc.
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Changes at Lang's
Attached is a letter that was mailed to the 30,000+ collectors on our mailing list. The editor of Auction Central News has written a positive and supportive article which is now appearing on their site. This article will also be emailed to 350,000 Internet buyers and auction houses in their newsletter. We have given interviews to multiple antique trade papers, with many more to follow in the coming weeks. The amount of constructive exposure this has caused is the largest in Lang's or fishing tackle history and will not only benefit the spring auction consignors, but all those involved in this great collectible field. View Letter from John & Debbie Ganung...

Lang's Fall 2007 Auction Nears $2.8 Million World Price Records reached in multiple categories. A record total for the 5th consecutive auction

Extremely Strong Prices realized for Derrydale & Angling Books, American Tackle and Zane Grey owned items at Lang's Auction held in Boxborough, Mass. on Nov. 1, 2 & 3, 2007

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(Nov. 2007) Fall 2007 Auction Historically Significant with the Sale of The John Moores Angling Collection

Impressive in its own right, this collection includes the finest American sporting book collection ever to be assembled by the greatest sporting book publishing company of all time, Derrydale Press, but this unprecedented collection also includes the earliest fishing tackle to be offered at auction: 1760's Ustonson rod, Ustonson multiplying reel, 1871 Thomas Tout fly rod, 17th century Pirn reel, 1860 Norris fly rod, 1850's Fritz Vom Hofe NY reel, extraordinary 1890's pearl presentation reel, 1800 Clarke/Higginbotham split bamboo rod, etc. There are also numerous famous personality items, originally owned by past presidents such as FDR, Herbert Hoover and Grover Cleveland, as well as sports and fly fishing icons such as Joe Dimaggio, Ted Williams, Lee Wulff, Sparse Grey Hackle, Edward Hewitt, Ray Bergman, etc. Movie related personalities are also represented with items from Bing Crosby, Robert Montgomery and Norman Maclean of A River Runs Through It fame.

In addition to the extraordinary content, what will truly set this collection apart from all others is the notoriety of the owner and the benefit this collection will provide. John Moores is best known to the public as the owner of the San Diego Padres. He will generously donate all proceeds from the sale of his treasured collection to the Carter Center "to wage peace, fight disease and build hope". President Jimmy Carter, a fly fishing enthusiast, has personally endorsed this sale with a hand written letter which is included in the auction catalog. A collection for charity of this magnitude is a first in the field of fishing tackle collecting.

In addition to the aforementioned, another major collection will be offered during the two day auction of equal importance to a passionate group of collectors in a wholly different category: The largest collection of Zane Grey's personal possessions to ever come to auction, with provenance originating from the Grey family Altadena mansion.

These truly museum worthy artifacts are of great historic importance and provide a once in a lifetime opportunity for Zane Grey collectors from novice to advanced.

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(April, 2007) - Antique & Collectible Fishing Tackle Hits An All Time High Lang's Spring 2007 Auction Sets A $1.7 Million World Record

The trend towards the strongest prices paid for the rarest examples in outstanding condition continues in every category and at every price level. Two powerhouse collections were the highlights of the Spring 2007 Auction: The Dr. John Romero Heddon Collection started the cataloged auction and included an amazing array of rare lures, lure boxes and Heddon advertising, bringing world wide attention to American lure collecting. Starting the second session, The Kerry Chatham Collection, also creating world wide attention, for the most important gathering of the rarest American reels to ever come to auction. The prices for the remarkable early fly reels in this collection soared with the scarcest casting reels following closely.

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(November, 2006) - Lang's Fall 2006 Auction Tops The Spring Sale A New Tackle Auction Record $1,218,000.00

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(April, 2006) - Lang's Spring Auctions Set Another Highest Grossing Tackle Auction Record - Topping $1,181,000.00

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(November, 2005) - Another Record Shattered As Lang's Fall Auctions Set A New Highest Grossing Tackle Auction Record - Topping $1,130,000.00

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(April, 2005) - Highest Grossing Auction Of American Tackle On Record - Lang's Spring Auctions Top $770,000.00

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