10 Old Fishing Reels in Your Garage Worth Thousands (How to Spot Them)

📘 THE BOOK: "The Old Scout Way: Walt's Camping & Fishing Manual" (120 camp and fishing tricks) 📗 ALSO: "The Old Scout Way: Walt's Camp Cooking Manual" (60 tricks for cooking with no kitchen) Get one, or both in a bundle: https://waltscampingsecrets.com I've fished Michigan lakes for sixty years, and in this video I count down 10 old reels that turn up in ordinary American garages and can carry serious money, with the exact mark to look for on every single one. In this video: The Pflueger Supreme tell: "Pat. Applied For" on the face plate, a serial on the palm plate, and no model number How to date a Talbot in one second by counting the screws on the head plate (four means pre-1901) The vom Hofe brothers: the same name on a $20 reel and on one that brought $26,200 at Lang's Penn Senator sizes explained, and why a 12/0 in a Michigan garage is worth turning over The Billinghurst birdcage: the most valuable American reel ever sold, and the easiest to recognize The free Shakespeare dating trick, and the honest truth that most old reels are worth $10 to $50 One warning that matters more than all of it: do not clean the reel. Patina is the evidence of age, and a Saturday afternoon with polish and steel wool can take a four-figure reel down to scrap money. There is no undoing it. If the name on yours is vom Hofe, Meek, Milam, Talbot or Henshall, don't sell it at the end of a driveway. Get it in front of a specialist auction house or the Old Reel Collectors Association first. What's the oldest reel in your garage? Type the name and the number off the foot below, I read every comment.