293 An historically important collection of Hardy trout flies and related ephemera

sourced from the Hardy factory some decades ago and comprising many flies contained in 66 white trade card boxes and a further collection of, mainly earlier flies, contained in various trade and plain envelopes with ink pattern details, including a number to gut casts, the collection comprises a very wide variety of various patterns, sizes etc. including some rarer patterns including Kashmir Dun, Wall Fly, Bonbright, Defiance, Orkney lure, Shy Blue at al along with many standard traditional patterns, with many of the flies attached to paper pattern tabs and ink annotated notes/pattern details, another unique opportunity to acquire a slice of Hardy’s fly making history £1000-2000