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[NIB]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

Think hard about which is worth more. The plug that started the whole thing or a carving done later in life?

I know Ur right.Plus It has sentimental Value to U.
Which in My opinion makes it Invaluable.
I would still like to have a carving.A Striped Bass one.Not sure if he did those.
Put it in a little glass case on the mantle.
(I'd have to get a mantle)I'm sure they are not praticle cost wise though.Just one of the things if I ever hit the lottery i would spend foolishly on.

[Flaptail]

Originally Posted by NIB

I know Ur right.Plus It has sentimental Value to U.
Which in My opinion makes it Invaluable.
I would still like to have a carving.A Striped Bass one.Not sure if he did those.
Put it in a little glass case on the mantle.
(I'd have to get a mantle)I'm sure they are not praticle cost wise though.Just one of the things if I ever hit the lottery i would spend foolishly on.

Tony, it has been described as "priceless" by serious collectors who could not put a number on it. I am lucky to have it as with most collectible plugs wherein the first plugs made are not known as in where they are, who has them etc.

As far as the carvings go Stan did Striped Bass, Bluefish, Bonito, sunfish in large and small versions. And it would not be foolish at all of you to want and acquire one. I used to visit him at his house when he was carving them. His legs were so bad he could not make it upstairs so he had his bed in the living room. He did not sleep well at night in his house. I guess he was to lonely and there were a lot of memories haunting him. His wife was in a hospital bed in the same room before she passed . He would sleep from 4 in the morning till the late morning then sit in the corner of his kitchen at a small table with windows to the left and in front of him facing westward to the little cottage that was his "factory" and the warm afternoon sun. He would color them with shading from a number 2 pencil after he carved them. His hands and mind were still steady though the rest of his body was paying for the life he lead and loved.

[NIB]

Great stuff Steve.
I remember u tellin me about the # 2 pencil.
Thats amazing.
Perhaps folish was a bad choice of words.
To simply acquire though i imagine it would cast a considerable amount of money.
I'm a man of simple means.This computr is one of the most lavish things I own.To spend money on a Collectable like that is not really responsible to me.But it would be nice.I tell ya what.If I caught a 60#er an was on the way to the taxidermy an got a call for one of those.I would eat the fish an mount the carving.I must have been special to fish/live in that time an have close relations to a guy like Stan Gibbs.
I wonder if there are "Stan Gibbs" amongst us now an people don't realize it.

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by NIB

I wonder if there are "Stan Gibbs" amongst us now an people don't realize it.

I don't think there will ever be another Stan Gibbs, in my opinion he was like a modern day Daniel Boone.
I know what you mean though, there could be another person like him in that he would be the begginning of some new fishing obssesion type of thing maybe.

buy a gibbs carving Tony, do it, you know you want one.

I remember seeing those slips