Coloured Penn Reels

[Penn Chronology]

I look pretty hard but almost never see anything like these amazing pieces.  Were those ebay finds?

Ray found these on EBay. Reels like this are almost always presented incorrectly and many times they are in a group of old junk. Sometimes the buy is a risk and you may not get what you think you see. EBay photos are notoriously inaccurate; but, Ray can see things very deeply, maybe because he has been in the printing industry all his life and has an eye for it. He has found rare reels in mundane presentations many times. He has the magic touch!

[Superhook]

Mike,

You surprised me with those photos. Here i was thinking they were packed away for shipping and - Bang .Check these out!    I guess after printing and matching colours for so many years the brain is a little more heightened to variances .

A lot of Ebay sellers do not clean their reels and sometimes you need to see through the grime and dust . 

Dom,  It's all good fun . Searching is like dropping in a line . You can't be sure of what you'll catch.

Thanks guys

[broadway]

You guys make a heck of a team!
I'll have to train these eyes a bit better and maybe some of those will be shipped to me.
Thanks
Dom

[Penn Chronology]

You surprised me with those photos. Here i was thinking they were packed away for shipping and - Bang .Check these out! 

You are correct again, they were packed away for shipping; but, I photoed them before I packed them. I could not allow reels that rare to not be in my database.

[Superhook]

   
   




Mike posted these 2 photos of this late 30's Bridge City.

I have now finished cleaning this reel  and the colour change to the head plate is dramatic.

The tail plate stayed a Rusty Orange colour but the big surprise was when i opened the head plate to see the original colour was a dark Grey.  Takes a lot of polishing to get back to the original colour and I did not want to wreck the logo so i left it at this. Most of what looked like the dark maroon of the 33-34 Era reel colour has gone. I'll Christen it the Cameleon.







First time i have seen a dark Grey from the 30's . Now we know how much they can change colour.

[Penn Chronology]

First time i have seen a dark Grey from the 30's . Now we know how much they can change colour.

Fantastic restoration of a fantastic find. Great Job Ray!

[Tightlines667]

Nice work Ray.  That is a nice reel.

[Maxed Out]

  Very Nice Ray...that one deserves to be in your collection of coloured old penns.

   

[Oceanreels]

Here are a few more with colored plates. 2 Long Beach No.60 reels, Long Beach Deluxe No.DL60 and a Leveline No.350. should have dusted these off before I took the photos.






I did not do the makeover of this reel with numbered parts. It is my understanding that it came this way from the Penn factory in the mid 2000s.

[Superhook]

Thanks guys .

You've posted very special reels here Brian . Your Long Beach DeLuxe is the only one of this model i have seen in COLOUR . Thanks for sharing.

[Maxed Out]

 Those reels definitely raise the wow factor off the charts............I like them all, but darn that red Long Beach is one sexy reel.


   Brian, I'm up for adoption in case you weren't aware. 

[Tightlines667]

Brian,
Those are some special reels there.  That LongBeach Deluxe must be particularly scarce.  That 350 is special too.

[broadway]

    I wish I was at that estate sale, but probably wouldn't have been able to snatch any of those beauties from Brian, Mike, or Ray's kung-fu grip anyway.
I know you guys put in your time on finding those treasures, as I've been collecting for about 8 years now and have only found a single one-off colored reel, my Big Red (9/0).
There goes the bar again being raised higher and higher... I love it!
Thanks for posting those drool worthy photos,
Dom

[Shark Hunter]

Amazing

[Penn Chronology]

OK Brian, now that I have seen your reels I am going to throw mine away.