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Message:: [QUOTE="stevex6, post: 2068488, member: 44183"]Pretty cool tale, Q ... it is very to cool have sweet gifts from your family's past (congrats) My Dad is now 91 years old and when we went back home and visited him last summer (still living in the house that he built 65 years ago) he gave me "his Dad's" cane fishing pole (which was apparently quite the sweet rod in its day!?) ..... so again, it is very cool to have a piece of your family's past!!  Dad figured that it was at least 80 years old, yet it is still in mint-condition, having been tucked inside a canvas bag within an aluminum shipping-tube for the past 70-80 years ... I still have the canvas bag and shipping-tube, but I figured that I'd let Grand-Dad's fishing rod hang in our dining room and get a breath of fresh air! (hopefully he'd think that was okay) The photos of the rod are a bit odd, because the rod is sooo long that it is quite difficult to get any cool photos of it ... but here are a few photos of it in our dining room (I mounted it on the window bulkhead ... it is pretty cool, eh?) I also attempted to take a few "close-ups" when I was researching the rod to determine its worth (hey, not to sell => just merely out of curiosity ... this baby is staying in the family!!) [ATTACH=full]382421[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]382422[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]382423[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]382416[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]382417[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]382418[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]