Otto Zwarg Model 400 Salmon Reel 2/0

Otto Zwarg Model 400 Salmon Reel 2/0A nice Otto Zwarg 400 Laurentian model salmon reel in 2 0 size. 3 3 8" diameter and set up for RHW. 11. 9 oz in weight. Serial #B106, indicating a rare circa 1947 Brooklyn made reel, and it has the Brooklyn stamp on the oil port as well (after two years of operation in Brooklyn, Zwarg moved his reelmaking operation to Florida in 1947. Zwarg, of course, had been the foreman at the Vom Hofe shop for many years). The reel is in excellent overall

Serial #2342

A handsome 8' 3-piece

The Screw nut is stamped "Payne" in a cartouche and "Reg US Pat Off" and on the reverse "Made for Abercrombie and Fitch"

A nice EF Payne model 204 fly rod

The color plates in the portfolio are all numbered 389 in brown crayon and signed as well on the lower left corner

The spool is mint

The real packs into the original neoprene case and includes the original paperwork and box from Joe's shop

a legendary Catskill fly tyer

For sale here is a custom Tom Morgan fiberglass rod -- 8' #5

Dickerson rods

Bound in English goat skin

As noted the #3 tip is a slightly lighter color with the #4 a slightly darker temper