Fin-Nor Wedding Cake 1 Fly Reel with Two Spare Spools

Fin-Nor Wedding Cake 1 Fly Reel with Two Spare SpoolsA very nice Fin Nor Wedding Cake #1 fly reel with two spare spools, and set up for RHW. The reel appears to be in mint condition, I can find no sign that it has been used. The spare spools may have been lightly used but are in near mint condition themselves. Gold anodizing with the famous stacked wedding cake design. Serial #549. These #1 Wedding Cakes are very hard to find as I believe no more than 600 were ever made. Further, this reel comes in the

The bright nickel silver ferrules are size 11/64 and 17/64 with a great fit

Original bag and the rod comes in the Leonard factory leather case with "HLL" embossed on the leather and a leather packet with the owner's name (Note: the metal buckle for the case top strap is broken but it is in excellent shape otherwise)

"D3" stamped on the inside of the frame and "3" on the side of the foot

The ferrules are 12/64

An excellent Charlton 8350C fly reel with two spools

Classic nickel silver cap and ring reel seat with a beautifully figured burl wood spacer

Single action retrieve

This rod has honey-colored cane

This rod model was named after the famous Boston Red Sox infielder

A nice Thomas and Thomas Sans Pareil 8' 2-piece

third generation reel

Reel seat hardware not die-stamped