Wheatley Fly Box - 12 Windowed Compartments

Wheatley Fly Box - 12 Windowed CompartmentsFor sale here is an early Wheatley dry fly box with 12 window compartments and a leader pouch on the underside of the lid. Made in England. The box is in excellent condition though one of the compartments is missing its latch. Time has created a rather handsome patina on the box. All of the windows, latches, and springs remain in excellent condition and function flawlessly save the missing latch. Interestingly, the box is quite heavy weighing in at

Nickel silver foot with 3 holes

Beautifully gold anodized

these are ventilated versions in the champagne-colored finish

for 6-8 weight lines

of which this is #307

Lightly used Ron Kusse Quad

Lightly used condition

189 at female

The reel seat is a down lock square thread aluminum screw lock with a butternut spacer

This is also the first screw lock seat I hand-made on my small 7″ swing Pratt & Whitney lathe

Serial #25-4-133

brass-topped tip tube and canvass outer bag