My generous neighbor brought over what he called a “bonus”, to follow the gift of the Weber MONOGRAM rod: his grandfather’s aluminum fly box, containing some flies; and some vintage-looking rifle reloading implements.
The box itself I have started to clean up and restore, as the foam rubber material inside had petrified.
Below are pictured the flies. Large flies, I would say, for fishing in Big Country.
And the reloading items.
As it turns out, his maternal grandfather, George Alden Crandall (1906-1989), of Connecticut, farmed; was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; had a military career, then became a guide and sporting goods wholesaler based out of Casper, Wyoming.
Below is a photo of Colonel Crandall (standing to the left), on Peleliu Island, in 1945.
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