Antique Fishing Lures: The ebay weekend buzz

Staying on typical form, a lot of antique fishing lure auctions set to end over the weekend, ofcourse this is where the money is at. Here are some of the outstanding finds from this weekends performance.

In the Creek Chub Bait Co. category, a very nice 6807 jointed striper pikie fishing lure sold at auction for $213.50. This lure was in very nice condition with only a few paint line cracks on the belly and very little hook corrosion. Pattern was what I believed to be called mullet. There were many more for the CCBCo that had good numbers and quite a few that sold in the $100 to $150 dollar range, but this is the one that stood out.


For Shakespeare, no real lures stuck out, but there was a very unique find on an antique fishing lure box, box-03fg-1904. Amazingly this box was still in shape, in tact, papers. Just quite a specimen to look at. Brought in an incredible offer and sold for $442.89. I was impressed. Such craftsmanship that you just don't really see much of these days.


In the Heddon category, there were 2 real standouts based on quality and price. The first crab wiggler that had a white body with red blush around the eyes. Sexy, and especially for the going rate of $202.50, very sexy!

The second was a trade minnow 100 that brought in a pretty penny of $179.19. Really clean and very nice sample.


As always, remember guides are great but the market pays!

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20070906: Creek Chub Antique Fishing Lure OTD

Make: Creek Chub
Model: Flyrod Dingbat
Color: Frog
Eyes: Painted
Condition: Good
Ebay: $96.99

Very nice looking antique fishing lure that sold for a decent price

Honorable Mention:
Injured Minnow with glass eyes. Very mint condition with box and papers. Box was a little soiled on the edges, but very solid with no broken or worn through seams. Sold for a respectable $61.00.


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20070906: Heddon Antique Fishing Lure OTD

Make: Heddon
Model: Giant Joint Vamp
Color: Natural Scale
Eyes: Glass
Condition: Fair-Good
Ebay: $136.50

Overall, nice lure. Glass eyes seem to be in tact well, not discolored. The back body segment has a clear chip in the wood on the top right. Visible aged paint cracks. All hardware looks to be in place but I've seen cleaner. Hooks have that aged look as well. The nose has some very visible wear to it as well. This antique fishing lure seems to have brought a very nice closing price at this auction.

The actual auction description could of used a lot of help:

"from nose to tail it is approx. 6 3/4 inches long if you need more pics or anything else just ask. thanks, happy bidding. p.s. i only ship to u.s. and canada" taken directly from the ebay auction page

The lure could've probably brought a better price if there was a little more meat and description in the sale.

Honorable Mention:
Heddon Punkinseed sold for $63.14. Lure had a chip in one of the eyes.


1928 Heddon Dowagiac Minnow sold for $43.55









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Antique Fishing Lures: Pfeiffer's Live Minnow Bait Tube

This was a baitholder lure manufactured by Pfeiffer's Live Bait Holder Co., Detroit Michigan. The box actually had a date marked March 3rd 1914. This is a very interesting antique fishing lure as it wasn't wooden and is not synthetic, it's actual glass. You would load up the glass tube with a natural bait and then fish it like any other plug. This lure was actually bought early on a buy it now option from ebay and went for $1,250.00. Not a bad chunk of change at all. Hope they are careful with the shipping as it is made of glass and being that old has to be very frail and fragile by now. Nice find for me as I'd never seen one of these before.


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Welcome to Antique Fishing Lures

Antique fishing lures are quite a passion of mine (as well as others I'm sure). I've always been fascinated by the different makes and models and especially the old wooden lures. I've always wondered just how much the different antique fishing lures would bring at market and I'm always surprised by the disparity in range of values for these lures. Sure there are plenty of guides out there and some very good ones. But that's just what they are, "guides". Sort of like an MSRP, however, it's blatantly obvious that at different times and dependent on the collector and how bad they actually want, what the market rate is for that certain piece of antique fishing lure equipment is worth and will actually sell for, still alot depends on the condition of the lure itself. My main source that I'm going to be pulling from is ebay, what a great place that is indeed. Such the lottery of items being sold in this market daily. The plan is to pick out the "pick of the litter" daily that was sold and make the compilations from there. If you enjoy antique fishing lures the way I do I hope this information will be insightful and as always feel free to drop me a line and leave a comment.