~Dickerson 7011 Special
~Dickerson 7011 Special; 7 ft 2pc/3 tips (one short) 2¼ oz. Lyle Dickerson made rods shorter than this, but never any rods of lighter action than this very rare example built in 1952. My deflection board puts it as a clear #3 line rod, though I haven't had a chance to cast it. Perfect ferrule fits, excellent varnish and overall at least very good condition. Both full length tips have slight right hand sweeps, one a touch more than the other, but not objectionable or unexpected from a well loved rod. There are dimensional notations, most likely in Dickerson's hand with a ball point pen, on the rod bag for each tip as seen on one of the close-up photos. Everything is light weight, including the choice of reel-seat spacer (cedar?), aluminum butt cap and slide band, and the use of a snake guide for the stripping guide (like on old Leonard Catskill Fairy rods). Ferrule blue is original and remains in excellent condition. The wood spacer for the reel-seat has a crack on one side as shown in one of the photos, and of course one tip is down as if it broke just below the tip top and then had a new tip top mounted. One of the rarest Dickersons, and certainly the lightest action he ever built; for the dedicated Dickerson collector and angler. In original leather and aluminum tube and bag. For domestic sale only. From the Thomas H. Clark collection. SOLD Click on smaller images to enlarge
