55/459/1-16

Tin box, with hooks for hooking flies in position inside. With 15 fishing flies of various types. There are both wet and dry flies.
This is a black tin box, with hooks for hooking flies in position inside. It contains 15 fishing flies of various types: Olive Dun, Light Olive, Orange Quill, Artful Dodger, Red Tag, Coachman, Black Gnat, Hare's Ear, and two unidentified flies. There are both wet and dry flies.

fishing flies

MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 'A group of modern fishing flies of mixed types both wet and dry. // 459/1 Tin box for pocket with hooks to hold the flies in place. // 459/2-4 Olive Dun Wet fly. Tailless variety of a popular fly pattern used everywhere. // Body- Olive quill ribbed with black // Hackle - Olive cock // Wing - Snipe or starling wing // 459/5 Light Olive Wet fly // Tail - Natural dun cock's // Body - Dark peacock quill dyed clover // Hackle - Natural dun cock's // 459/6 Orange Quill // Tail - Orange hackles // Body - Quill dyed orange // Wings - Rusty dun // Hackle - Orange // 459/7-7[sic - should be 8?] Unidentified // 459/9 Artful Dodger Wet fly // Body - Purple wool ribbed fine gold wire // Wings - Cock pheasant's wing feather // Hackle - Blood red cock ribbed down body // 459/10 Red Tag Wet fly // Tail - Red wool or scarlet ibis // Body - Green peacock head // Hackle - Red cock // 459/11 Coachman Wet fly // Body - Bronze peacock head // Wings - Duck or goose or any white wing feather // Hackle - Light red or brown cock's // 459/12-13 Black Gnat // Tail - Tow strands of Black Hen's hackle // Body - Black silk // Hackle - Black Hen's // Wings - Starling wing feather tied small // 459/14-15 Hare's Ear Dry fly // Tail - Partridge // Body - Hare's fur ribbed tinsel // Wings - Pale starling feather // Hackle - Longer strands of the body picked out.', MERL ‘Associated information’ form – 'Black tin case with hooks for hooking flies in position // Property of late Colonel E. G. Cheke R. F. A. // [pencil sketch]'

Fishing fly, Box, tin