mt_flyfisher
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I have 2 stream thermometers that I’d like to sell. One is a vintage Hardy brass thermometer that I’d like $50.00 for, and the other is a never used thermometer (probably stainless steel) from Anglers Image that I’d like $10.00 for. They can be picked up in the Lancaster, PA area, or I’ll ship them for the actual shipping cost paid by PayPal. Send me a private message here to make arrangements or with any questions.
I’m not sure why these Hardy thermometers sell for as much as they do, but they are collectable vintage angling pieces, and routinely sell for more than what I’m asking, and not always in as good condition. Plus, mine has a connection to a former movie actress - believe it or not. 😃
I bought the Hardy thermometer from the Hardy store on Pall Mall in London during a business trip there in 1971. I also bought a couple Hardy Lightweight reels and several dozen full dressed salmon flies, and then bought a Farlow bamboo fly rod at the Farlow store just down the street. All of this was less than $250. I didn’t fish there during that trip but I stayed at the Bell Inn in Aston Clinton, together with the Hardy thermometer and the other fishing tackle items. Aston Clinton is 40 some miles northwest of London.
I stayed there for 3 weeks and I had a lovely room that entered off a cobblestone courtyard, that I understood was an abbey several hundred years ago. The back of my room had French doors that opened onto a private patio where I ate my breakfast each morning and looked out over large rose gardens. The room’s bedroom was separated from the main part of the room with floor to ceiling curtains, and its bathroom had two side by side bathtubs that faced each other.
One of our company manager’s lived at the Bell Inn and told me that Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor had stayed in the same room as mine a short time prior to my stay, and Burton had purchased a lavish diamond for Taylor while they stayed there. (Details of that diamond purchase are on Wikipedia, and elsewhere on the net.) Jackie Onassis and other notables also stayed at this Inn during the 1960’s.
So what does all this have to do with a fly fishing website and my Hardy thermometer asking price? Probably nothing. But you’d be able to say that the thermometer spent time in Elizabeth Taylor’s bedroom. ❤️ (A even better story would have been if Marilyn Monroe stayed there after the movie Some Like It Hot.)
I’m not sure why these Hardy thermometers sell for as much as they do, but they are collectable vintage angling pieces, and routinely sell for more than what I’m asking, and not always in as good condition. Plus, mine has a connection to a former movie actress - believe it or not. 😃
I bought the Hardy thermometer from the Hardy store on Pall Mall in London during a business trip there in 1971. I also bought a couple Hardy Lightweight reels and several dozen full dressed salmon flies, and then bought a Farlow bamboo fly rod at the Farlow store just down the street. All of this was less than $250. I didn’t fish there during that trip but I stayed at the Bell Inn in Aston Clinton, together with the Hardy thermometer and the other fishing tackle items. Aston Clinton is 40 some miles northwest of London.
I stayed there for 3 weeks and I had a lovely room that entered off a cobblestone courtyard, that I understood was an abbey several hundred years ago. The back of my room had French doors that opened onto a private patio where I ate my breakfast each morning and looked out over large rose gardens. The room’s bedroom was separated from the main part of the room with floor to ceiling curtains, and its bathroom had two side by side bathtubs that faced each other.
One of our company manager’s lived at the Bell Inn and told me that Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor had stayed in the same room as mine a short time prior to my stay, and Burton had purchased a lavish diamond for Taylor while they stayed there. (Details of that diamond purchase are on Wikipedia, and elsewhere on the net.) Jackie Onassis and other notables also stayed at this Inn during the 1960’s.
So what does all this have to do with a fly fishing website and my Hardy thermometer asking price? Probably nothing. But you’d be able to say that the thermometer spent time in Elizabeth Taylor’s bedroom. ❤️ (A even better story would have been if Marilyn Monroe stayed there after the movie Some Like It Hot.)
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