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[vineyardblues]

Not me, Adam R and CS Fur shore
I like wood .lol

VB

[Nebe]

how old are the wood ones? I got one

[Flaptail]

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.

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

while awaiting those guys, what little I know .

Ya right, what little ya know, i'd be happy with 1% of it.

Thanks Steve.

[capesams]

the only thing I can add is they[wood] were first made in "44" lips were hand cut and weren't truly maketed till "45".

Bob pond lived in a trailer in buzzards bay where he turned and sold some of his earlyer wood baits.

charlie sherer and bill chasen came up with the name[atom bomb] for Bob's bait's which turned into just atom.

the glass eyed wood was only made in "48"and very few of those were made, because they were switching over to plastic and they weren't about to put eye's on plastic.
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the [first born] plastic striper atom came in "49".

the stinky and eel skin came in "55"

wood atom jr's come in two sizes

atom# 51's[plastic] had paint and glitter

atom #52's have white bottom's and colored top's

atom# 54[plastic] some were cut to made two different size popper's////atom 54's also came in foam.

atom stinky's[40's] came with a brass screw plug in the rear end so one could put the juice inside for smell.

atom 40 also came with a salted eelskin already covering the entire plug.

atom kill lure//a flat clear fish shaped plug...only made for a year.

the list go's on and on, but as far as pricing go's...condition...color[bait]....common/rare....color of box..bag...etc...they can go from beater $3.00 to $300.00 and higher depending on the bait.As more people start to take up collecting, bait's become harder to find forcing price's up higher reguardless if you think their worth it or not..

[gone fishin]

Anyone have a reverse atom they want to part with??

[thefishingfreak]

Originally Posted by gonefishintalk

Anyone have a reverse atom they want to part with??

i got two

[Karl F]

little more light reading for you JPI...
http://www.atomlures.com/mission.htm