WF - Nickel Finish, Weedless and Fly

Nickel finish or nickel plate body with a weed guard and a feather or 'fly' dressing with hook. When first cataloged for the years 1924-1925, this lure was listed is different metallic finishes (nickel, copper, gold) and with or without the weed guard and the feather dressing which was referred in the catalog as a 'fly'. In subsequent years of production, the weed guard and 'fly' were a standard part of the lure.¹

This box appears to have been mis-marked as the letters are reversed.

(Lure & box from the collection of Dan Basore!)

¹Joan L. Lyons, Heddon Cataloged Lures, 1902-1984, (Evansville, Indiana: M. T. Publishing Company, Inc., 2017) p. 288.