Hardy Bougle 110th Anniversary Limited Edition Fly Reel EF Payne Rod Company As noted the #3 tip

As noted the #3 tip is a slightly lighter color with the #4 a slightly darker temper

Beautifully agate winding check

Transparent wraps

The reel seat is also rare for this rod -- a slide band with black anodized acorn and pocket cap over cork barrel -- which is the same seat featured on the first run of my limited edition "Spinoza" models

resulting in a finely detailed rod without being ostentatious

Hardy Bougle 110th Anniversary Limited Edition Fly Reel EF Payne Rod Company As noted the #3 tipLIMITED EDITION BOUGL REEL Limited Edition fly reels, handbuilt in Alnwick, England in a run of 110 numbered reels to commemorate 110 years since production of the first Bougl reel. Louis Bougl In the early 1900s, Hardy's were approached by an extraordinarily flamboyant Frenchman, at that time almost unknown in England, whose name would become familiar to two generations of the firm's customers and would echo down even to our own time. His name was