Maybe you want a brand new part, and probably its available from Pflueger, ordered by its 1495 part #. That part may be polished stainless, though, whereas on many Pflueger copies, and possibly yours, the part was plated. Your reel may well have been made in the same overseas factory that made Pfluegers. I'm guessing that for a time when Shakespeare acquired Pflueger, they marketed the same reel under both names in the US, the only difference being frame stampings and the latch cover. Then for a while the "Pflueger by Shakespeare" wording was on the latch cover. But noboby accepted the Shakespeare name for a Pflueger product, and that disappeared, too. There were plenty of Pflueger-like knock-offs, but with slight differences in construction. Anyhow, I wouldn't expect your reel to ever be especially valuable, just as it's doubtful the Asian-made Pfluegers will be. So you might want to just use it, say, with a Shakespeare ugly stick if you could find one, a fine old knock-about- heavy line weight fly rod. I guess that's all up to you, but if you want a salvage part, you're probably in business (steel wool usually cleans them up pretty well, too). The reel shown is another Pflueger clone, identical to the 1495 in size, I believe, but I sold my larger Pfluegers so can't compare, except by including the smaller 1494. The parts reel has two lineguard plates, one removed and placed on the ruler. I also have several full chrome plates in the size shown; some clones used these. Anyway, if interested just use my ez message box. For whatever you want, I'd just ask adequate postage for me to send it to you.
Posted: 18 May 2007, 04:44 • 
