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Posts: 78 05/07/2009 16:43	Tags : None Obviously there were well known builders in the Catskills, a couple in Utica, and a few seldom mentioned makers in Syracuse, but were there any (I'm talking contemporary with H L Leonard, Fred Devine) rod builders in the Albany area ? The Adirondacks, Catskills, Vermont streams, and western Mass. Berkshire streams are all within (relatively speaking) reasonable distance. Even in the days of primitive travel, I would think it would be just as easy (or difficult !) to get from Albany to the Battenkill say, as getting from NYC to the Beaverkill. I don't think I've ever seen any Albany area builders discussed here on the forum. Anyone know of any ?
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Posts: 2783 05/07/2009 17:08 Admin	There was a builder in Oswego, but that's a good haul from Albany. You should pick up a copy of "Forgotten Fly Rods" by Todd Larson (Whitefish Press). Great stories & a must-have for everyone interested in vintage rods. :-)
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North country brookie		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 79 05/08/2009 19:43	Thanks, PCG. I reserved a copy of the next printing of Dr. Todd's book, and yours too. Look forward to reading them both. NCB
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tkerr7735	T. B. Mayell	#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 346 05/09/2009 17:14	Just before A.G. Spaulding got into Kosmic rods, they advertised their split bamboo rods by T. B. Mayell, Maker, New York. I have one. I did a very brief amount of research years ago. The only mention that I could find at the time was in the 1889 - 1891 Albany business directories for a "Ten Broeck Mayell" (yes - that is correctly spelled - maybe they had nine other similarly named children). The occupation field was blank, but the other family members were in the "India rubber goods" line of business. Not exactly an air-tight case, but it's a potential data point during the right time frame. Todd - any data show up on Mayell when you were researching Spaulding? --Tom
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North country brookie		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 81 05/09/2009 18:04	Tom, Thanks. I think the spelling is Dutch - Albany started out as a dutch settlement before the English took over. There is still a lot of Dutch history in the area.
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PaducahMichael		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 659 05/09/2009 19:35	North country brookie wrote: Obviously there were well known builders in the Catskills, a couple in Utica, and a few seldom mentioned makers in Syracuse, but were there any (I'm talking contemporary with H L Leonard, Fred Devine) rod builders in the Albany area ? The Adirondacks, Catskills, Vermont streams, and western Mass. Berkshire streams are all within (relatively speaking) reasonable distance. Even in the days of primitive travel, I would think it would be just as easy (or difficult !) to get from Albany to the Battenkill say, as getting from NYC to the Beaverkill. I don't think I've ever seen any Albany area builders discussed here on the forum. Anyone know of any ? It's D-I-V-I-N-E. With two eyes. Just like most of us. The New Divine Rods
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cwfly	Mayell	#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 949 05/11/2009 09:59	Tom, Todd likely knows much more about this than I do. However, my brief inquiry cannot find a relationship between Tenbroeck Mayell of Albany and rodmaking. Spalding did advertise, at least in the one I have seen in the March 2, 1889 The American Angler, No. 10, V. XV p. 168, that it was ceasing wholesale tackle and reducing the price on its "MAYELL" six strip hexagonal fly and bait rods from $15.00 to $8.60. The 1880 census has Ten Broeck Mayell, age 28, living at home with his parents, brother and two sisters. His father, Henry, was in the rubber business and had a store in Albany. Tenbroeck's occupation is listed as "clerk in store." Tenbroeck Mayell appears to have received two patents, 17 November 1891, #463,293 for a vehicle spring support and 17 May 1892, # 474,845 for a safety loop for a harness check. The patents spell his name as "Tenbroeck B. Mayell." An entry is found in Albany Chronicles, A History of the City Arranged Chronologically, C. Reynolds compilation, Albany, 1906, p. 755, stating "Ten Broeck B. Mayell, rubber goods, dies" February 19, 1901. The implication is that he followed his father's line of work although the two patents might suggest an attempt at independence. The marking on your rod is certainly specific and I can find no other "T. B. Mayell" in New York or anywhere else for that matter in 1880. As you probably know, most of the 1890 census went up in flames. Charlie The brook runs over the bones of the planet and carries the sky on its back…. Odell Shepard Last Edited By: cwfly 05/11/2009 18:28. Edited 2 times.
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Posts: 407 05/11/2009 10:24 Sic transit piscatoria Clark's	I will have to go back through my files but I know I have several ads for Spalding's Ten Broeck Mayell rods. They were sold for several years. I'll post more when I can find the file which at the moment appears to have been misplaced... -- Dr. Todd
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tkerr7735		#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 351 05/12/2009 21:37	Charlie, I agree with everything that you said. My input is simply the only piece of info that I've found that correlates in any way to a T.B. Mayell in New York. I also think that Todd's article referred only to T.B. Mayell. The Ten Broeck B. Mayell connection probably traces back to my own web site page from 2002. This is probably one of those cases where you have to wait for the grass to grow for another xx number of years until more information surfaces. Then we may find the Spaulding ledger shows that they sent their Mayell payments to 430 Broadway or 161 Hamilton in Albany, NY. -Tom
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bamboocollector11	T. B. Mayell	#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 420 05/12/2009 22:17	I also have a marked T.B. Mayell rod. It is an 11' rod in rather poor shape with a short mid. The female ferrules have a soldered ring around them, but are not waterproofed. The male ferrules are open on the bottom, not capped. This particular rod has a 5 stamped on the butt section & the mid- section; I haven't located the 5 on the tip yet (this stamped marking is similar to that of an early Fred Divine wood rod I have). The quality of the rod is fairly poor right down to the partial double stamping of T.B. MAYELL MAKER NEW YORK. The rod also has a rattan wrapped grip and a rather long butt cap. There are about 7 wraps remaining on the rod and there is some splitting of the rod sections on the mid & tip. If it is indeed the rod that Spaulding was selling for $15 in 1888, then somebody received a rather poor value for their money. Ed
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