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US 1,996,477 · granted April 2, 1935

The 1935 lure patent

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

Documented fact: Anton J. Lauby’s application was filed September 15, 1933, and patent US 1,996,477 was granted April 2, 1935.
Interpretive limit: The patent documents a claimed construction. Its filing and grant dates alone do not date every surviving lure or establish the company’s founding.

Still to be establishedWhich surviving variations correspond to the patented construction requires a detailed object-to-drawing comparison.

Sources & record notes

Photographic or documentary record LLA-REC-0008 · Reviewed September 2026. Record identifiers describe the material shown here; they are not accession numbers for authenticated physical objects.

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Provenance

Document reproduction supplied with the collection; bibliographic facts are checked against the linked patent record. The patent is evidence of an invention, not certification of a surviving object.

Document identification

Title: Artificial fish lure
Inventor: Anton J. Lauby
Application filed: September 15, 1933
Patent granted: April 2, 1935 · US 1,996,477

Cite this record

Lauby Lures. “The 1935 lure patent.” Record LLA-REC-0008. Updated September 11, 2026. https://www.laubylures.com/collection/patent-1935. Accessed [your access date].

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