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Some Hardy Reel Models and Variants. (Manufacturing Dates in brackets)

(A- Z)
Alma Big Game Reel (1925 - 1927)
Alta Fly Reel (1927 - 1939) 
Altex No. 1 Fixed Spool (1932  -1966) 
Altex No. 2 Fixed Spool (1932 - 1966) 
Altex No. 3 Fixed Spool (1935 - 1963) 
Altex Sea Fixed Spool (1937 - 1959) 
Barton Dry Fly Reel (1935 - 1939) 
Birmingham Aluminum Platewind Reel (1884 - circa 1894) 
Bougle (1903 - circa 1940) 
Brass Bronzed Crankwound Pattern (Circa 1880 - Circa 1920) 
Brass Bronzed Platewind Pattern (Circa 1880 - Circa 1920) 
Brass Raised Pillars Crankwound Pattern (Circa 1873 - Circa 1880) 
Brass/Black Ebonite Platewind Pattern (1886 - 1896) 
Brass/Orange Ivorine Platewind Pattern (circa 1891 - circa 1891) 
Bronzed Crank (1880 - 1909) 
Cascapedia Dural ( 1937 - 1939) 
Cascapedia Ebonite (1932 - 1936) 
Cascapedia Mk (1-500 Numbered) (cira 2000 - 2003) 
Combined Fly & Spinning Reel (1894 - circa 1897) 
Conquest (1955-1966) 
Coquet Sea Reel ( (1911 - 1921) 
Davy Fly Reel (1930 - 1939) 
Decantelle Bait Casting (1932 - 1950) 
Ebona Longstone (1904 - 1916) 
Ebona Megstone (1904 - 1916) 
Eddystone (1964 - 1967) 
Elarex Multiplier (1939 - 1964) 
Eureka (1913 - 1955) 
Exalta Fixed Spool Reel (1958 - 1965) 
Farne - Silex Action (1898 - 1901)  
Farne - Ventilated Pattern ( 1902 - 1903) 
Farne -Aluminum Sea Reel (1896 -1897) 
Farne Ebona - with Silex No. 1 Action (1904 - 1910) 
Farne Ebona - with Silex No. 2 Action (1911 - 1913) 
Farne Ebona New Patent Ocean (1904 -1910) 
Farne Improved (1914 - 1939) 
Farnestone (circa 1930s) 
Featherweight Lightweight (1960 - current) 
Ferres Reel (1925 - 1932) 
Field (1895 - 1907) 
Filey (1925 - 1939) 
Fin de Lange (1934 - 1939) 
Flyweight Lightweight (1951 - current) 
Fortuna - For "Tuna" (1921 - 1966) 
Fortuna Fly Reel (1924 - 1939) 
Gem - Saltwater (2002- current) 
Gem Mk 1 (1961 - 1969) 
Golden Prince (1984  - circa 1997) 
Hardex Fixed Spool (1937 - 1959) 
Hercules (1896 - 1904) 
Hercules 1887 Bronzed Brass Platewind Pattern (circa 1887 - 1903) 
Hercules 1890 Aluminum Platewind Pattern (circa 1894 - circa 1894) 
Hercules Brass/Nickel plate Platewind Pattern (circa 1886 - 1887) 
Hercules Sterling Special Order (1888 - 1890) 
Hydra (1965 - 1967)
JLH Ultralite (1990 - 2003) 
Jock Scott (1938 - 1952) 
Jock Scott Multiplier (1938 - 1952) 
Lightweight Fly Reel (1936 - 1964) 
Longstone - Gen. Harrison's Pattern (1927 - 1937) 
Longstone - Mr. Mallet's Pattern (1927 - 1937) 
Longstone - Wood Pattern ( 1917 - 1920) 
Longstone (1923 - 1995/2003 - current) 
Longstone 1921 Pattern (1921) 
LRH  Lightweight (1951 - current) 
Mallochs Side Casting Reel (circa 1886 - 1891) 
Mallochs Sun & Planet Reel (circa 1882 circa 1885) 
Marquis (1970 - 1999) 
Match Fishers Reel (1937 - 1939) 
Megstone - Wood Pattern ( 1917 - 1927) 
Natal (1923 - 1948) 
New Brunswick (1935 - 1928) 
New Brunswick Mk #1-500 (2002 - 2003) 
Nottingham (1885 - 1921) 
Nottingham Sea Reel (1888 - circa 1893) 
Nottingham with Silex Action (1898 - 1921) 
Nottingham Silex 1912 Pattern (1912 - circa 1921) 
Ocean - Aluminum Ventilated Pattern (1902 - 1903) 
Ocean - Improved (1911 - 1911) 
Ocean First Pattern (1894 - circa 1896) 
Ocean Fourth Pattern - Plain Model (1898 - circ 1900) 
Ocean Improved Pattern - 2nd with Silex Action (1902 - 1903) 
Ocean Prince (circa 1985-1995) 
Ocean Second Pattern (1896 - 1897) 
Ocean Third Pattern with Silex Action (1897 - 1910) 
Perfect - Brass Faced (1889 - 1910) 
Perfect - Contracted (1899 - 1917) 
Perfect - Contracted with Line Roller (1909 - 1910) 
Perfect - Mk I (1917 - 1921) 
Perfect - Mk II (1921 - 1967) 
Perfect - Silent Model reintroduced Second Pattern (1931 - circa 1939) 
Perfect - The Special (1905 - circa 1940) 
Perfect (1890-1967/ 1976 - 1995) 
Pomeroy - West India Tarpon Reel (1909 - 1913)  
Poole - Combination Rod and Friction Driven Reel ( 1913 - 1913) 
President Reel (1934) 
Prince (1984  - circa 1997) 
Princess (1953 - 2003) 
Rhodesian Reel (1931) 
Ryders Registered Central Balance Reel (circa 1886 - 1891) 
Sea Silex (1914 - 1959) 
Silent Check Perfect - First Pattern ( 1908 - 1910) 
Silex (1972 - 1996) 
Silex Dunne No. 2 Frameless Pattern (circa 1923) 
Silex Frameless Pattern (circa 1905) 
Silex J.J. Hardy (1924 - 1928) 
Silex Jewel (1954 - 1959) 
Silex Major (1923 - 1952) 
Silex Minor (1923 - 1923) 
Silex Multiplier ( 1924 - 1937) 
Silex Multiplyer "E. W." Level Wind (circa 1928) 
Silex No. 1 (1897 - 1910) 
Silex No. 2 (1911 - 1922) 
Silex No. 2 with Silent Wind (1911 - 1922) 
Silex Rex Multiplier (1935 - 1937) 
Silex Superba (1960 - 1971) 
Silex with Trailing Break (circa 1921) 
South African Surf Reel (1931 - 1948) 
Sovereign 2000 (1999 - 2001) 
Sovereign Golden (1990 - 1997) 
St. Aidan Lightweight (1964 - 2003) 
St. Andrew Lightweight (1961 - 1964) 
St. George (1911 - 1983/2003) 
St. George Jr. (1928 - 1963/2001 - 2003) 
St. George Multiplier (1927 - 1939) 
St. George Salmon (1920 - 1924) 
St. George Silent Check (1920 - 1934) 
St. George Trout with Silent Check (1920 - 1926) 
St. John (1923 -1990/2003) 
Sunbeam (1924 - 1957) 
Super Silex (1928 - 1953) 
Super Silex Dunne (circa 1929) 
Super Silex Multiplier (1930 - 1939) 
Tarpon Multiplying Reel (1896 -1896) 
The Fly Reel (1940 - 1948) 
Tournament 1931 1st Pattern (1931 - 1934) 
Tournament 1931 2nd Pattern (1935) 
Trade Fly Reels (1940 - circa 1945) 
Triumph Casting Reel (1923 - 1928) 
Triumph Centrepin Reel (1936 - 1951) 
Triumph with Silex Check Pattern (circa 1923 -1927) 
U.S.A. (1922 - 1923) 
Uniqua - Brass Drum Pattern (1903) 
Uniqua (1903 - 1959) 
Uniqua Salmon (1909 - 1959) 
Viscount 150 Mk 1 (1969 - 1978) 
Wallis (1932 - 1939) 
White - Wickham Big Game Reel ( 1934 - 1937) 
Zane Grey Big Game (1928 - 1957) 
Zenith Lightweight (1960 - 2003)