WB Clarke. The Oakly

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LuckyLuca
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WB Clarke. The Oakly

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Picked up a WB Clarke The Oakley 12' light match rod yesterday at an antiques fair.
Does anyone know anything about this maker? The writing on this rod is oddly familiar but people moved around a lot in Redditch I believe.

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Hi Steve, it is almost certainly from the same 'stable' as Grove Tackle from Sudbury! This writing is so distinctive, but I am having a blank about some others from this stable, I am sure others on TFF will confirm who they are! :Hat:
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There’s that script again. I wonder who it was that did the writing on all these rods for different makers.
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Marc wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2019 12:00 pm There’s that script again. I wonder who it was that did the writing on all these rods for different makers.
His name is Archie Harrison, see post by John Harding entitled 'Recent Purchase' April 3rd 2018.
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