A VISUAL FIELD GUIDE
Look a little closer.
Sixteen views of painted finishes, feathered tails, hook mechanisms, and the boxes carrying the Lauby name. Select a photograph to enlarge it.
16 photographs
Six spoon forms in the display
Six complete spoon-shaped examples, with feathered and exposed treble-hook tails. This closer crop isolates the lures from the surrounding boxes and table edge.
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Two feathered spoons, underside view
Red-and-cream and yellow-and-black examples, with their metal straps, line attachments and feathered tails in view.
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Straps, swivels and tails
An alternate angle on the red-and-cream and yellow-and-black spoons shows the metal straps, swivels and wear in the painted finish.
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Red and cream, side by side
Three red-and-cream examples on clear stands. Their relative proportions can be compared here, although no measured scale is included.
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Yellow, black and a fine scale pattern
A group view brings together two yellow-and-black examples and a green-and-gold example with a fine scale-like finish.
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The spoon in profile
An oblique view shows the curved bodies, feathered tails and hardware below the painted surfaces.
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A closer look at the scale pattern
The green-and-gold finish, dark border and feathered tail of one spoon-shaped example.
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Blue spots and exposed treble hooks
Two cream-and-blue examples beside a darker scale-patterned spoon. The exposed treble hooks provide a useful comparison with the feathered examples.
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Two weedless-spoon finishes
Red-and-cream and yellow-and-black examples, with metal straps and single hook points resting along the bodies.
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The hook grooves in view
An overhead angle on the same two forms makes the recessed hook arrangement and body contours easier to inspect.
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Red-and-cream hook detail
A close view of the metal strap, painted eye and single hook point on the red-and-cream example.
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Two broad-bodied surface forms
Green and yellow-and-red examples with broad faces, visible eyes and hanging hooks. The closer view shows wear in the finishes and their clear display stands.
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A surface form in profile
The yellow-and-red example in side view, with its broad face, painted eye, feathered tail and hanging hook visible.
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Three minnow forms and a printed box
Green, yellow and black minnow-shaped examples beside a box carrying the Lauby Lure name. Their placement together does not establish that this box originally held any of them.
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Small forms, closer up
The three minnow-shaped examples shown without the box, with their line ties, eyes, paint wear and treble hooks visible.
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Small feathered lures and box lettering
Two small spoon-shaped, feathered examples beside a printed Lauby box. The photograph has been turned so the box lettering reads upright.
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