My Father purchased this rod when he got back from WWll. It's an Orvis impregnated bamboo rod, the ''Manchester'' model, 8' three piece with two tips in absolute 'Pristine' condition, in the original four compartment cloth sheath in its original aluminum screw top tube. The numbers at the ferrule joints are all #5423 so it's the same as was made, and you still have to rub and twist the male ferrule end against the side of your nose to for the oils to get the ferrules to slip together easily. It's a funny coincidence that my wifes last name is Manchester. Fifty plus years after Dad bought it I married Sherry Manchester.
He showed me how to use it when I was just a kid, after I learned how to properly take the line off the reel and spin it onto the drying racks they used for flyline back then. It was twenty years later before he'd let me 'Borrow' it from time to time and when he gave it to me I'd only use it for those special events on those special creeks and streams now famous for their flyfishing status. It's been many years since I used it and for as long as we've had it few other hands have ever even held it.
Does anybosy out there know anything about its current market value at all. I hate to think of selling it but medical bills and a short prospect of a longer life find me in a quandry. None of my children, Grandchildren, or great grandchildren show any inclination to have it as they don't fish the same way anymore. Any ideas on where I might sell it? Anybody?
