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Post 22 Nov 2020, 18:31 • #1 
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Searched high and low and can't find much on this rod as far as if it's made in USA or overseas.


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Post 22 Nov 2020, 21:27 • #2 
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Did you check the thread on "Heddon Glass Fly Rod Catalog Listings 1951-1983? Lists all the rods, but I didn't see anything about where they were made. I have one of those rods also, probably from the first series as it has metal ferrules.

Larry


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Post 22 Nov 2020, 23:13 • #3 
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Pictures would be a huge help here....


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Post 23 Nov 2020, 10:53 • #4 
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That should be in from @'69-'75 catalogs if memory of a previous (perhaps on another site) post serves. I had supposed all Heddons were USA made.


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Post 23 Nov 2020, 16:56 • #5 
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My 7' 5Wt #8542 "Golden Mark 50 Pro Weight" with a "All Fiberglass Ferrule" sticker on the gold front of the cork has no reference of where it was built.


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Post 23 Nov 2020, 17:43 • #6 
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There is a Heddon museum ,maybe they could be contacred via email


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Post 23 Nov 2020, 17:48 • #7 
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Their 50 year anniversary was in 1974 so the rods were made then.


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Post 30 Nov 2020, 09:18 • #8 
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All the "Mark" series were made in the U.S.A.


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Post 30 Nov 2020, 13:51 • #9 
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Got it. Thx


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Post 30 Nov 2020, 18:49 • #10 
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Thanks from me too.I have a small pile of Heddons and assumed they were all made here.


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Post 02 Dec 2020, 00:55 • #11 
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I actually found a Golden Mark 50 #8545 in really, really poor shape some time back. The blank/ferrule was still good so I stripped it down to the bone and did the project resurrection thing with it..it is now honestly hands down my favourite 8' 7wt!


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Post 02 Dec 2020, 09:31 • #12 
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Fascinating, and I, too, assumed that the Heddons loved best were USA made. A reminder that in the post war boom well into the 1960s, it was pretty much the case that consumer goods were USA made, or they had "import" panache from a European maker. So much so that there wasn't much reason to place a USA-made sticker on the product, or even indicate that in the product literature. Who noticed that Heddon seldom if ever did? Where there was a source i.d., it was much more city and state recognition ("Akron, O" for Pflueger, let's say) than nation. In fishing tackle, the ascendency of Asian goods begins around 1970, evident in the Herter's catalog and gradually on retail shelves of large stores, and then even the little general stores. And "Made in USA" shows up in the labeling and marketing of tackle.

Eventually, Heddon, like many others, did import reels, such as the Daiwa-Seiko made Hardy knock-offs. Some--I forget if Heddon did--transitioned with "made-in-Japan, assembled in U.S." Most companies in a similar market niche did go to imports, but I can't picture a made-in-Japan Heddon fly rod. But possibly there were also some later Asian made Heddon fiberglass fly rods that came after the well-loved models discussed here? Hardware or tip-into-butt ferrules might be indicators. By the 1980s, just the absence of the once assumed "Made in USA" sticker or catalog description might also be a telltale.


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Post 21 Nov 2023, 19:50 • #13 
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Photo of the plastic advertisement cork sleeve on new rod :


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Post 22 Nov 2023, 15:20 • #14 
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#8540 - 6 1/2', Golden Mark 50. Early seventies? USA made was an accurate assumption for these rods.

Sandman



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Post 22 Nov 2023, 15:54 • #15 
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A few not so great pics of 8545 golden 50.This one is NOS. Another rod I forgot I had.Was in the original case that has shrunk .Was a bear getting the rod out of.


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