domed horn handle, bridge foot, triple cage pillars, fixed check, backplate script engraved “Presented by Miss Georgina Ballantine to Arthur McKerchar in order to teach his son to fish”, faceplate with raised two screw spindle boss and stamped shield logo, reel is mounted on a bespoke oak display stand with Hardy brass patent winch reel fitting £300-400
** Arthur McKerchar was born 1915 in Stanley on the banks of the river Tay and died in 1990, in Blairgowrie, a local man all his life, he was likely to have been a family friend or fellow angler of Georgina Ballantine, who remains the holder of the British record salmon taken in 1922 and weighing 64lbs
247 A scarce Malloch “Monarch” Sun and Planet 4” alloy salmon fly ree...
