Kelly, Mary Kefover - U. S. Fishing Rod Patents and Other Tackle 8'7" The spools are one-piece aluminum

The spools are one-piece aluminum machined from bar stock

You can find a similar McMonies creel on Page 81 of the book "The Art of the Creel"

Varnish has some bag imprint

An excellent Bogdan trout reel in left hand wind

The ferrules are wrapped in chestnut

Kelly, Mary Kefover - U. S. Fishing Rod Patents and Other Tackle 8'7" The spools are one-piece aluminum1990 1st edition. Thomas B. Reel Company. Plano, Texas. 104 pages. B W photographs, illustrations. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Like new condition in dust jacket showing minor handling marks. "U. S. Patents Class 43. Sub Classes 18 26. 1854 to 1931". Contains numerous reproductions of patent drawings, as well as photgraphs of rods and equipment. Introduction and brief history of the fishing rod by the editor, Brian McGrath of the Leonard