Mitchell
Mitchell 300
Spinning reel · 1940s
$25–$90
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Era · 13 references
1940s vintage fishing reels
This era page also holds the catalogue's oldest designs, which predate the 1940s: the Pflueger Medalist (1929), the Pflueger Supreme and Akron casting reels (1920s), the Penn Long Beach name (1933), the Penn Senator (1936) and the Penn Squidder (1938), along with Shakespeare's Kalamazoo casting reels. In the 1940s itself ABU of Sweden turned from watches and timers to fishing reels, dating its first reel, the Record, to 1941, and in 1948 Mitchell introduced the 300 spinning reel in Cluses, France.
References
Penn
Penn Long Beach 65
Conventional reel · 1940s
$25–$60
Penn
Penn Senator 113H
Conventional reel · 1940s
$45–$110
Penn
Penn Senator 114H
Conventional reel · 1940s
$55–$140
Penn
Penn Senator 115 9/0
Conventional reel · 1940s
$100–$220
Penn
Penn Senator 116 12/0
Conventional reel · 1940s
$200–$450
Penn
Penn Squidder 140
Conventional reel · 1940s
$40–$100
Pflueger
Pflueger Akron 1893
Baitcasting reel · 1940s
$15–$45
Pflueger
Pflueger Medalist 1494
Fly reel · 1940s
$35–$125
Pflueger
Pflueger Medalist 1495
Fly reel · 1940s
$30–$100
Pflueger
Pflueger Supreme
Baitcasting reel · 1940s
$25–$80
Shakespeare
Shakespeare President 1970
Baitcasting reel · 1940s
$25–$65
Shakespeare
Shakespeare Wondereel 1920
Baitcasting reel · 1940s
$20–$55