Pre-1920 Heddon Lures and Box Collection1903 - 1920 Heddon Lures and BoxesThe collections of Dr. Michael EcholsContributor to Luckey's Old Fishing Lures Book and the NFLCC Gazette |
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Topics discussed or shown: Heddon lures and boxes. Research on Heddon Dowagiac fishing lures and boxes. Heddon wood boxes with underwater minnows. Articles on collecting cup-rig lures, High forehead lures and Heddon white boxes, Photos and information on the Slope nose picture box, down leaping bass box, Heddon Pine Tree box, blue border box, white border box, Artistic box, multiple minnow box, Heddon 'It Swims' box, Killer box, grading lures, lure collecting |
Pre-1920 Heddon Lure Site Index
Antique Lure Photos and Articles on Collecting Lures
Lure Collections of Dr. Michael Echols
2002-2007 Echols Heddon Collection Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
1999-2000 Echols Heddon Collection Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
1997-1999 Echols Collections: Antiquelurecollectibles.com Heddon, misc., Shakespeare, Pflueger
1995-1997 Echols Collections: Antiquelures.com Heddon, Shakespeare, Pflueger, early misc.
Articles on Early Heddon Lures and Boxes
Heddon Dowagiac
1913 Heddon Catalog
All photos and written content on this site is copyrighted © 1997- 2009 by Dr. Michael Echols. Nothing on this site may be used on another web site or reprinted without the express written permission of Dr. Echols
Lure collecting addiction: a serious problem
Pre-1920 Heddon lure identification, a point by point method
Heddon lure identification by type of hardware. Photos and text explanations.
Heddon 100 and 150 statistics to help match correct lure and box
Heddon 250 notes and the color Welbourne Special
1905 to 1908 comparative nose anatomy to identify Heddon lures
Lure construction details for identification
Heddon wood boxes: identification and dating. Photos of wood boxes.
Heddon 150 color chart from the early catalogs
Heddon 1908 color chart contract lures from Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Co.
Colors by rarity for selected early Heddon lures, two pages
Old yellow and old rainbow Heddon colors
Color chart for identification of box numbers
1904-1912 model 100 body shapes and boxes. Photos of minor variations.
1904-5 body style with cut off nose and tail
1905 model 100 body styles, colors, and shapes. More photos.
1906 vs 1908 100 and 150 body and cups
1906 vs 1908 175 lure, box, and paper
Manufacture date sequences for early lures, pre-1920 Heddon
Four hook Slopenose Expert with gold wash cups
Heddon Boxes:
Box identification 1904-1930. Photos of early and rare Heddon boxes.
Box identification: examples of early pre-1920 boxes, box side data
Lure Hardware & Box Identification 1904 to 1930
Wood boxes, identification and discussion
NEW DOWAGIAC wood box, identification and markings
Heddon white box vs Pine Tree box 100 body shape comparison
Box early paper and what Heddon box it went in
Details of Dr. Echols' 1999 collection
Heddon Page One
Slopenose in picture box
Killer in picture box
901 in 'It Swims' box
900 in white box
Black Sucker in Musky box
700 sienna in Musky box
Heddon Page Two
150J frogscale
3000 green crackleback Spindiver
300 green crackle back
Underwater Dowagiac Minnow
154 early solid red
104 early solid red
707 sienna fancy back
Heddon Page Three
1904 100, three belly wts. in wood box
1905 150, two belly wts. in wood box
1907 100, two belly wt.
1908 100, one belly wt. in wood box
1908 150, one belly wt. in wood box
1909 100, one belly wt. in white box
1913 100, one belly wt. in Bass box
Heddon Page Four
'00' yellow, green, red, in PineTree box
'0' red and black in Bass box
3000D greenscale Spindiver in Bass box
107 sienna, L-rig, in Bass box
Heddon Page Five
109A, bar perch, L-rig, in Bass box
102, red eye blush fat body, cup rig, in Bass box
151, rainbow, cup rig, in Bass box
101, rain bow, cup rig
700, green crackleback, L-rig, in Bass box
Dummy Double in Bass box
300 perch, flat plate, six hook, in Bass box
Heddon Page Six
109, silver flitter, blunt nose, in wood box
159, silver flitter, blunt nose, in wood box
158, gold flitter, fat body
108, gold flitter, fat body
108, gold flitter, fat body, in white box
Heddon Page Seven
Bucktail Surface Minnow, in intro white box
157 fat body cup rig in white box
300 transitional high forehead in old rainbow
Heddon Page Eight
150 yellow, fat body, L-rig, in Bass box
150 green crackle back, fat body, L-rig
152 red eye, fat body, L-rig, in Bass box
109B frog, L-rig, in Bass box
3009B frog, L-rig, Spindiver in Bass box
Heddon Page Nine
Crag Wiggler, frogscale, in Bass box
Zaragossa, green back with flitter
Torpedo, green scale, side hooked
Heddon Page Ten
159A yellow perch in wood box
107 sienna fancy back in wood box
152 slate back in wood box
151 old rainbow in wood box
176 old rainbow in tall wood box
300 green crackleback in wood box
105 old yellow in wood box
All photos and written content on this site is copyrighted © 1997- 2009 by Dr. Michael Echols. Nothing on this site may be used on another web site or reprinted without the express written permission of Dr. Echols