More flies to go fishing with. Sunken mounts containing samples of fly-making materials from W. H. Aldam’s 1876 work “Aldam’s Flees & the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making” Taken from the website of PBA Galleries.

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Figure 3 and 4. Image © 2020, PBA Galleries. Fair use license. via https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/422/lot/135017/A-Quaint-Treatise-on-Flees-and-the-Art-a-Artyfichall-Flee-Making-by-an-Old-Man-Well-Known-on-the-Derbyshire-Streams-as-a-First-Class-Fly-Fisher-a-Century-Ago-Printed-from-an-Old-Ms-Never-Before-Published-the-Original-Spelling-and-Language-Being-Retained-with-Editorial-Notes-and-Patterns-of-Flies-and-Samples-of-the-Materials-for-Making-Each-Fly
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Figures 19 and 20. Image © 2020, PBA Galleries. Fair use license. via https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/422/lot/135017/A-Quaint-Treatise-on-Flees-and-the-Art-a-Artyfichall-Flee-Making-by-an-Old-Man-Well-Known-on-the-Derbyshire-Streams-as-a-First-Class-Fly-Fisher-a-Century-Ago-Printed-from-an-Old-Ms-Never-Before-Published-the-Original-Spelling-and-Language-Being-Retained-with-Editorial-Notes-and-Patterns-of-Flies-and-Samples-of-the-Materials-for-Making-Each-Fly
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Figures 5 and 6. Image © 2020, PBA Galleries. Fair use license. via https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/422/lot/135017/A-Quaint-Treatise-on-Flees-and-the-Art-a-Artyfichall-Flee-Making-by-an-Old-Man-Well-Known-on-the-Derbyshire-Streams-as-a-First-Class-Fly-Fisher-a-Century-Ago-Printed-from-an-Old-Ms-Never-Before-Published-the-Original-Spelling-and-Language-Being-Retained-with-Editorial-Notes-and-Patterns-of-Flies-and-Samples-of-the-Materials-for-Making-Each-Fly
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Figures 11 and 12. Image © 2020, PBA Galleries. Fair use license. via https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/422/lot/135017/A-Quaint-Treatise-on-Flees-and-the-Art-a-Artyfichall-Flee-Making-by-an-Old-Man-Well-Known-on-the-Derbyshire-Streams-as-a-First-Class-Fly-Fisher-a-Century-Ago-Printed-from-an-Old-Ms-Never-Before-Published-the-Original-Spelling-and-Language-Being-Retained-with-Editorial-Notes-and-Patterns-of-Flies-and-Samples-of-the-Materials-for-Making-Each-Fly
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FIgures 17 and 18. Image © 2020, PBA Galleries. Fair use license. via https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/422/lot/135017/A-Quaint-Treatise-on-Flees-and-the-Art-a-Artyfichall-Flee-Making-by-an-Old-Man-Well-Known-on-the-Derbyshire-Streams-as-a-First-Class-Fly-Fisher-a-Century-Ago-Printed-from-an-Old-Ms-Never-Before-Published-the-Original-Spelling-and-Language-Being-Retained-with-Editorial-Notes-and-Patterns-of-Flies-and-Samples-of-the-Materials-for-Making-Each-Fly

Sunken mounts containing samples of fly-making materials from the 1876 “A Quaint Treatise on “Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making” which was written by Aldam, W.H. Aldam and published in London.

Figures 15 and 16.
Figures 15 and 16. Image © 2019, PBA Galleries. Fair use license. via https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/422/lot/135017/A-Quaint-Treatise-on-Flees-and-the-Art-a-Artyfichall-Flee-Making-by-an-Old-Man-Well-Known-on-the-Derbyshire-Streams-as-a-First-Class-Fly-Fisher-a-Century-Ago-Printed-from-an-Old-Ms-Never-Before-Published-the-Original-Spelling-and-Language-Being-Retained-with-Editorial-Notes-and-Patterns-of-Flies-and-Samples-of-the-Materials-for-Making-Each-Fly
Figures 1 and 2.
Figures 1 and 2. Image © 2019, PBA Galleries. Fair use license. via https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/422/lot/135017/A-Quaint-Treatise-on-Flees-and-the-Art-a-Artyfichall-Flee-Making-by-an-Old-Man-Well-Known-on-the-Derbyshire-Streams-as-a-First-Class-Fly-Fisher-a-Century-Ago-Printed-from-an-Old-Ms-Never-Before-Published-the-Original-Spelling-and-Language-Being-Retained-with-Editorial-Notes-and-Patterns-of-Flies-and-Samples-of-the-Materials-for-Making-Each-Fly
Figures 21 and 22.
Figures 21 and 22. Image © 2019, PBA Galleries. Fair use license. via https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/422/lot/135017/A-Quaint-Treatise-on-Flees-and-the-Art-a-Artyfichall-Flee-Making-by-an-Old-Man-Well-Known-on-the-Derbyshire-Streams-as-a-First-Class-Fly-Fisher-a-Century-Ago-Printed-from-an-Old-Ms-Never-Before-Published-the-Original-Spelling-and-Language-Being-Retained-with-Editorial-Notes-and-Patterns-of-Flies-and-Samples-of-the-Materials-for-Making-Each-Fly
Figures 13 and 14.
Figures 13 and 14. Image © 2019, PBA Galleries. Fair use license. via https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/422/lot/135017/A-Quaint-Treatise-on-Flees-and-the-Art-a-Artyfichall-Flee-Making-by-an-Old-Man-Well-Known-on-the-Derbyshire-Streams-as-a-First-Class-Fly-Fisher-a-Century-Ago-Printed-from-an-Old-Ms-Never-Before-Published-the-Original-Spelling-and-Language-Being-Retained-with-Editorial-Notes-and-Patterns-of-Flies-and-Samples-of-the-Materials-for-Making-Each-Fly

So pretty. More coming. 5 plates left.