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I managed to copy the pic shown of the Forecarp shown as sold at Cheffins in 2006 ... There are no other pictures shown.

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Just looked at the Cheffin rod picture and the eBay one. FTW changed the spelling of Forecarp to it appears?
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It may be my eyes, of course (I am getting old, you know ... dodder ... dodder)... but it does look as though the ebay pic shows the spelling "Forcarp" while the description states "Forecarp."
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I found on the net FT Williams forcarp cane rod sold at Bonhams 2005 for £23. I have sent a number of questions to this seller on a number of rods but something always stops me bidding though.
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Bumble wrote:I found on the net FT Williams forcarp cane rod sold at Bonhams 2005 for £23. I have sent a number of questions to this seller on a number of rods but something always stops me bidding though.
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£23 and it was a joblot

An F. T. Williams Craftsman Forcarp two piece built cane rod 10’
with black and scarlet whippings throughout, suction ferrules, agate lined butt and tip rings and anodised green reel fittings in maker’s cloth bag, some re-whipping together with a Shakespeare Radial carbon spin 1520 –270 two piece spinning rod 9’in maker’s cloth bag little used, an ABU Garcia Conolon 800 two piece carbon spinning rod 7’6” in cloth bag, and a C. Farlow’s two piece built cane spinning rod 9’6” butt ring replaced, no bag (4)

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F.T.Williams made a cane rod called the foravon, 10ft, 2 piece
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I like the look of that rod ljm. :)
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So, the rod did exist then, though we appear to have some spelling anomalies. This is why I always encourage folk to restore rods to original spec when they are rare, or one day we'll have no idea what they used to look like.

It also appears the Foravon was around for some time as there are a few with both transfer styles and some more with anodised reel bands and other furniture. Only Rodrill and Williams seem to have gone down this route and I'd guess it dates those rods to the very late Sixties, maybe even early Seventies.

None of these images show an second butt ring, though.....

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AshbyCut wrote:I managed to copy the pic shown of the Forecarp shown as sold at Cheffins in 2006 ...
It's probably just an artefact of the photography, but, is that rod four-sided?

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Sold for just shy of £80, not sure what that says about it though?
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