Description: These books are a special find. “Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History “ treating both standard and rare materials, their sources and geography, as used in classic, contemporary, and artistic trout and salmon flies, displayed in photographs, and in the paintings and engravings of history's greatest ornithological zoological illustrators: Volume 1 - Birds; Volume 2 - Birds and Mammals (Signed) Millis, Massachusetts: The Complete Sportsman, 1994-1997. Limited Edition. Hardcover. #33 of a limited edition set of 250 sets. Signed by both authors Schmookler and Sils, on limitation page each volume. The definitive work on materials from birds and mammals used in fly tying. Volume 1 concentrates on 115 different birds from 39 families whose feathers are used in the creation of angling flies. In Volume 2, the authors continue their discussion of birds used in fly tying with a look at 8 birds from the emu to the black-billed magpie, followed by a discussion of breeding of poultry for fly tying in America, modern hackle production, various mammals historically used in fly tying from Diana monkeys to wild boar, the history of sericulture, and use of metallic threads and tinsels in fly tying, and selected fly dressings. Over 500 photographs and illustrations in vivid color.
Price: 2600 USD
Location: East Charleston, Vermont
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