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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique Fishing Catalog
Bio of Antique Fishing Lure Distributor John Pritzlaff
In the year 1850, John Pritzlaff, along with August F.
Suelflohn and Henry J. Nazro, opened a small retail hardware store called John
Pritzlaff and Company. Nazro was a silent partner, but carried the financial
burden. In 1853 Suelflohn was bought out by Pritzlaff and in 1866 Nazro
withdrew, leaving the entire business with John Pritzlaff as proprietor of a
large and rapidly growing business. By 1884 Pritzlaff incorporated the John
Pritzlaff Hardware Company. The company kept growing and moving until it became
the largest hardware store in Milwaukee and the entire region. When John
Pritzlaff died in 1900, his son, Frederick C. Pritzlaff, took over the company.
The John Pritzlaff Hardware Company appears in the Milwaukee City Directory
for the last time in 1958. ***
In this old fishing lure gallery you will see a original 1903 John Pritzlaff
Fishing Tackle Lure Catalog.
While the catalog is much larger than shown and carries a vast array of
products, more than old fishing lures and reels in this gallery Ill stick to
those two products.
Some of the lures shown below are, Chapman, Pflueger, Skinner, Hendryx and many
more.
While I've tried to annotate what I feel are some of the fishing lure or reel
origins, I may be incorrect as multiple old fishing lure and old fishing reel
makers made similar lines.
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Front Cover
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Unnamed Single action raised pillar Reels.
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Unnamed Double Multiplying Reels.
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Unnamed Quadruple Multiplying Reels.
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing Vom Hofe Reels.
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing the Allright, the Featherlight and the Expert Reels.
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing Pflueger Delavan Lures.
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing Shakespeare Lures, the Revolution and the Worden BuckTail, as well
as Chapman Eureka brand and Pflueger lures.. |
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing Skinner Trolling Lures. |
1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing Skinner Lures.
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing Pflueger Success Luminous Lures.
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing Pflueger Non Luminous, fluted Lures. |
1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing Pflueger Admiral Lures with fancy shields.
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing Pflueger Muskellunge Lures.
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing Pflueger Muskellunge Lures. |
1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing Some very early Heddon Lures, the Underwater Expert and the Slope
Nose, both are first versions of Heddon production.
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing Pflueger Muskellunge Lures.
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1903 John Pritzlaff Antique
Fishing Lure Catalog
Page Showing Skinner Lures.
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***John Pritzlaff Hardware Company (Milwaukee, Wis.). Records, 1839-1868,
1884-1949. Milwaukee Manuscript Collection CQ and Milwaukee Micro Collection 9.
Wisconsin Historical Society. Milwaukee Area Research Center. UWM Libraries.
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
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