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while awaiting those guys, what little I know is that Bob Pond, as a young man loved to fish the canal. He decided that the plugs in use were not big enough ( he was right) and he started making the woodens in a trailer. I do not know if it was in Attleboro or somewhere else but Attleboro was his home base and eventually the company was based there. His plugs were some of the earliest wooden bass plugs made in Massachusetts, pre dating Gibbs and a few others. Either at the last leg of the war or just immediatly after. I know Stan told me Bob was making plugs to sell before him. The earliest wooden ones measured some eight inches long and were painted with simple Gold broken stripes over white wkth gold cheeks or Silver broken stripes over white with silver cheeks and a varnish coat. Then came combinations of silver/green gold/green etc. Plastic came in the late forties. Hard foam came in the mid fifties. You can find woodens at flea markets for 5.oo bucks in most any condition or freakbay has them and if the plug is clean with only the varnish darkened you can pay 100.00. Some P-40 plastic plugs have gone for over 200.00 but that is an anomaly caused by inexperienced collectors paying too much. Really rare color combos ( and there are a lot of them) can bring a 100.00 but that is and should be the top of the scale. The rarest wooden Atom known sports glass eyes and of course to Atom fans is the Holy Grail. I don't know if there are more than the one known to exist.
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