What Antique Wooden Fishing Lures Brand Worth to Collect and How to Avoid Fake?

There are so many antique wooden lures that are worth to collect and all is depend on your “taste”. A boxed set of antique lures can fetch up to $ 7000. Most of antique wooden lures are made on early pre-19^th century.

In the late of 1800’s, the first wooden lures in general use were made and from about 1915 to 1950’s was the golden age of wooden lures. Since this lures has something unique that originally made by hand and has different specification than people start collecting this lures instead of use for fishing.

Here some brands of antique wooden lures

Heddon, Shakespeare, South bend, Pflueger, Paw paw, Creek chub, Moolight, Arbogast, Coldwate, Bite-em, Ans decker, Worden, Jamison, Keeling, Carter/dunks, Hatings/Wilson, All.foss, Outing mfg.

For some reason many people collect lures made by one company, while others mixes their collection from many company.

3 mistakes to avoid when buying antique lures

Pay attention with repaints or paint alterations. Lure condition is very important which will more value than similar lure with less condition. For some lures paint designs, or certain colors of paint, are considered rarer than others and will bring a premium price.

Price of antique wooden lures. Begin your research to find out what is the reasonable price for certain lures. You can start to find the price from antique lures books, collectors, dealers, or simply browse on e-bay for recent price. If you want to buy and the price seems to low than this might be fake or you in luck, who knows!

When you collect lure for the first time, don’t deal with stranger or people you don’t know. If somehow the lure that you are bought are consider fake or not an authentic or less in value than you will hard to return it.

What you need to consider when new in lure collection is create a network of fellow lure collectors. You can get a handle on the latest trends on demand and supply when keeping in touch white them. And again, book is your resources to increase your knowledge of antique lures. Read as much as possible, so when you meet your fellow collector than you know what they are talking about.

Here’s the estimate value for Antique heddon lures:

1. Heddon Dowagiac picture box with correct lure (less for empty picture box) Drawing of lure on top of cardboard box : $1,600-1,800 and up…
2. Correct 150 in the marked wood box w/paper: $850- up
3. Ice decoy: $500- up
4. Spindivers: $450 – up
5. Heddon Dowagiac wood slide top boxes: $300- up
6. Down leaping Bass blue two piece cardboard boxes with blue border around the paper label on top: $300- up