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I know a couple of chaps on here were interested in making some bone tipped floats and thought this image might be of help. The body on these seems to be two sections of green-tinted celluloid. Perhaps the tips are not bone, but quill?. Sadly the image does not show the writing on the display case. 
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Hi Nobby, I know these floats , my mate sold them a few years ago, they are beauties . I think they sold for a tidy sum alongside another Allc0cks display of floats from around the 1930s . Not sure who bought them but whoever did now owns some nice float displays .
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Paul, I found some other shots at the same time, but I'm blowed if I can remember where I found them....   Perhaps these are the floats you recall. I also have these...  And these, but I can't make out the writing, perhaps they are Harcork ( sp?).....  I've seen some lovely displays of floats set in front of pictures of rivers, but these really look good and I'd never realised the famous Belglow floats were from Forshaws.
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Nobby , these are the floats my mate had . I think the present owner bought the job lot off him . That is the Allc0cks display I mentioned earlier . They were on my mates stand at Redditch and quite possibly Romnsey . They were priced quite high although the framing bill for each one was expensive so that pushes the price up straight away. They may well have gone on ebay also with a reserve.
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Just took a look at the first photo and I am sure that is my mates ugly reflection in the glass!!
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Do you know Paul, until you wrote that I hadn't even noticed his reflection !
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I just saw this on flea bay and thought of all you float makers especially with the issues of creating cork bodies. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ov...1c10054d20#ht_500wt_1174
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Drat, I was trying to keep them to myself chaps!
Now I may have competition.
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hermes wrote:Drat, I was trying to keep them to myself chaps!
Now I may have competition. Don't worry Hermes, I'm not bidding. sorry I spilt the beans. On another note I went down to the Roding Yesterday, by the playing fields, running quite high and fast but looked very 'chubby'. Fished for an hour or two, trotting with pin but no joy. Have you ever seen any fish down there? It looks great but I need some reassurance! Tadpole
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Nobby,
The bottom picture(Number 4) of what you posted,I was given about a dozen floats in August of very similar build.Though not in the condition of those in the photograph.
Cracking floats though.
Hob
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[quote=Tadpole]I just saw this on flea bay and thought of all you float makers especially with the issues of creating cork bodies. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ov...c10054d20#ht_500wt_1174[/quote] They've gone for £108!!! Were you the winning bidder Hermes?
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No chaps, looks like things got a bit silly eh
I would have liked them but couldn't warrant that sort of money.
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