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This leather wallet was used for carrying fishing flies and guts. It has felt and vellum pages and pockets to place the flies in. This wallet contains a large group of mixed trout flies, as well as 6 pieces of gut and a damaged hook. The fly types include: Woodcock and Red, March Brown, Tod Fly, Partridge and Red, Partridge and Green, Dun pattern, Yellow Dun, Blue Dun, Coachman, Greenwell's Glory, Teal and Claret, Woodcock and Orange, Alexandra or Lady of the Lake, Connemara Black, Watson's Fancy, and other unidentified wet flies. Only 40 found see image, Nov. 2021

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MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 'A large group of mixed trout flies. // 464/1 Leather wallet for carrying fishing flies and guts. Vellum pages and pockets to place flies in. // 464/2 Four pieces of gut. // 464/3 Damaged hook // 464/4 Damaged wet fly // 464/5-8 Woodcock and Red. Wet flies. One damaged. // Tail - Red cock's hackle // Body - Red floss // Wing - Woodcock // Hackle - Red cock's // 464/9-22 March Brown Wet flies. Four damaged. // Very popular and sucessful pattern used since the seventeenth century. // Tail - Two strands as hackle // Body - Hare fur spun on brown silk ribbed gold tinsel // Hackle - Darkish brown partridge back feather // Wings - Hen pheasants wing // 464/23 Tod Fly Wet fly seldom used now. // Tail - Two strands of game-cock's hackles // Body - Striped quill ribbed gold tinsel // Hackle - Soft feather of woodcock // Wing - Slate // 464/24-25 - Partridge and Red. Wet Fly // Body - Red wool // Hackle - Partridge // 464/26-28 Partridge and Green Wet fly // Body - Green wool // Hackle - Partridge // 464/29-34 Dun pattern Wet fly // Tail - Single strand of badger cock's // Body - Tinsel flat // Wing - Slate // 464/35/38 Yellow Dun Wet fly // Tail - Fibres as hackle // Body - Yellow floss or tying silk // Hackle - Light yellow dun cock or brown feather // Wings - Light starling wing // 464/39 Blue Dun Wet fly // Tail - Medium blue dun hen's hackle // Body - Blue fur or wool // Hackle - Medium blue dun // Wings - Starling // 464/40-42 Blue Dun Wet fly. Frances's dressing. // Tail - Medium blue dun hen's hackle // Body - Blue fur of rabbit, mole or water rat, ribbed by yellow tying silk or silver wire and dubbed or varnished. // Hackle - Medium blue dun hen // Wings - Starling // 464/43 Coachman Wet fly // Body - Bronze peacock head // Wings - Duck, goose or any white feather // Hackle - Natural light red or brown cock's // 464/44-46 Greenwell's Glory Wet flies // Body - Waxed yellow tying silk ribbed fine gold wire // Wings - Dark starling // Hackles - Light furnace cock's // 464/47-48 Teal and Claret Wet flies. One damaged // Body - Claret floss or tying silk ribbed silver tinsel // Wing - Teal feathers // Hackle - Light brown cock's // 464/49 Woodcock and Orange. Wet fly // Tail - As hackle fibres // Body- Orange floss or tying silk // Wing - Woodcock // Hackle - Light brown cock's // 464/50-51 Wet flies One damaged // 464/52 Alexandra or Lady of the Lake. Wet fly for sea trout. Rare now. // Tail - Red ibis // Body - Flat silver tinsel // Hackle - Black hen // Wing - green peacock head with ibis on either side. // 464/53 Connemara Black Sea trout fly // Tail - Golden pheasant crest // Body - Black wool or seal's fur, ribbed fine and silve // Hackle - The blue feather of a jay. // Wing - Teal // 464/54 Greenwell's Glory - Wet fly // 464/55 Watson's Fancy Wet fly for sea trout // Tail - Small golden pheasant crest // Body - Half red and half black floss or dubbing, ribbed with silver tinsel // Hackle - Black cock's // Wing - Mallard with jungle cock each side // 464/56-58 Wet fly. // Body - Light tying silk // Hackle - Inside wing of a woodcok // 464/59 Wet fly / 464/60 Two pieces of gut.', MERL ‘Associated information’ form – 'Container a brown leather wallet with pieces of white felt and vellum onto which flies are pinned etc. // Names of some flies written in pencil // [pencil sketch] // Property of late Colonel E. G. Cheke R. F. A.'

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