Prices for Shakespeare and Rhodes Boxes

Gabby Talkington

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These are prices we will pay for nice empty boxes

* Prices vary with color, condition, grade, markings, age, and desirablity.

Prices effective 02/17/2006

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Rhodes' Kalamazoo Fishing Tackle Co. Mechanical Frog in tan/buff colored cardboard box (c.1905?) $800-up *
Black "introductory" cardboard box with silver imprinted top for Revolutions, Worden bucktail, Shur-Lure (1902-1905)   $1,000-up *
Shakespeare Rhodes Wooden Minnow maroon cardboard box (1906) $500-up *
Early Shakespeare buff or white cardboard picture box with a printed "picture" label of a 3 or 5 hooker underwater minnow on top (1905-1906) $1,000-up *
Shakespeare Wooden Minnow in a maroon cardboard box with paper label attached to top and end (1907-1909) $1,000-up *

Early Shakespeare wood box with paper label on top (1907-1910) $400-up *

Later wood box with red ink imprinted logo on top of box and paper label on the end (1910-1918?) $400-up *

Gray box with green and red logo with various end labels (1912-1924 and maybe into 1930's) $200 *
Orange and blue box (1925-1950's) $10 *

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Introductory or "intro" box examples:

Various Shakespeare introductory or special issue cardboard boxes were used the first year of production:

Slim Jim introductory white cardboard box with printed label on top (1907) $400-up *
Kazoo Wooden Minnow introductory white/buff cardboard box (1909) $400-up *

Whirlwind introductory maroon box with white paper label on top (1909) $500-up *

(Intro boxes not shown: Punkinseed, Musky Underwater, Rhodes Mechanical Frog.)

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