Brass Crank-Wind 2 3/4" Trout Winch -- Phin Edinburgh Salmon and Steelhead Rods The leather tabs that hold

The leather tabs that hold the straps on the cap have come off

Garrison-style hook keeper as well as grip measuring 5 1/2" in length with only the slightest handling marks

First Edition (Registered Edition limited to 400 copies

Gorgeous little model

graphite rod from the Wathne Collection

Brass Crank-Wind 2 3/4" Trout Winch -- Phin Edinburgh Salmon and Steelhead Rods The leather tabs that holdFor sale here is a very scarce brass crank wind trout winch from the 19th Century. Stamped PHIN MAKER EDIN on reel foot. My bit of research turned up Phin's Fishing Tackle Warehouse in Edinburgh. Mr. Phin was regarded highly as a rod maker as early as 1819. From the archives of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in May 1819, "Without offence to our other excellent friends, we pronounce him the prince of our metropolitan rod makers""Mr. Phin never dresses