THE COLLECTION

Look closer.

Painted bodies, ingenious hardware, original boxes, and the records that connect them. Explore the photographs and documents below.

Upper and underside photographs make the construction as interesting as the paint.

A close view of the body, paint and single-hook arrangement.

A broad, angular body offers a useful comparison with the spoon-shaped examples.

Packaging preserves language that can be lost when lures are studied on their own.

A reproduced portrait of Anton Lauby holding a spoon-shaped lure.

An exhibition display puts the company, its products and its public presence in one frame.

A contemporary advertisement anchors product names, prices and the Marshfield address.

A patent provides a dated engineering record, separate from the history of retail production.

A later hook mechanism broadens the documented story beyond the familiar spoon designs.