I don't know if the PGCA owns or has the brochure Dean. I asked around before writing the PP article and the only one that ever surfaced was a two page flyer that Mike Kobos was kind to send me and which was owned by him, not the PGCA. The only artifacts that I am aware that are owned by the PGCA are the John Browning AH 12ga gun and a high grade, rather infirm, hammer 10ga. The new 28pg brochure takes the marketing information used by Parker for the P-H rod to a new level and is far beyond what I had seen Parker do before with the exception of the Remington Parker skilled hands catalog.
When writing the Parker Hawes article, we had only a few examples of rods to inspect and photograph. Any Hawes rod is rare and any Parker-Hawes rod is rarer still. Perhaps you are correct, that more will be forthcoming now. The small, lightweight examples for very light lines are intruiging and I'd like the opportunity to inspect those.
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