Hardy 1912 Perfect Salmon Fly Reel 3 1/2" 10'6" A very nice old salmon

A very nice old salmon rod that's in very nice shape for its vintage

The action is just slightly on the faster side of medium-fast and quite smooth

and generosity

and a long birch reel seat with blued cap and ring hardware

and the C-shaped base are stamped with a "2"

Hardy 1912 Perfect Salmon Fly Reel 3 1/2" 10'6" A very nice old salmonA rare and unique Hardy Perfect 1912 check fly reel, 3 1 2" diameter, set up for the typical right hand wind. Unusually this reel has straight pillars, a feature of earlier reels which I've never personally seen on any other 1912 models and have heard of only a few. Curiously the stamp on the inside of the winding plate is "GT" (Gordon Talbot) whose tenure dates to 19291939 (according to John Drewett's reference) well into the period during which