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Internal butt reel

Two long, tapering cutaway views of a fishing-pole butt containing internal reel bobbins, a toothed ratchet wheel, parallel rack bars on a sliding frame, guide rods, and a fingerhole lever at the base, alongside a small circular detail view of the bobbin hub.

FISH-LINE REEL.Abram H. Dailey · February 9, 1886

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