Antique fishing float. Zephyr - 8S 8”.

Zephyr float - 8S 8”. Slider. Label: ‘Pat, 2190-19’. Green, black top.
Background image Sowerbutts Catalogue, 1929.

Antique fishing floats: In 1919, according to Keith Harwood in "The History of the Float", a Mr E Talbot took out the first of two patents for a float made of paper. Zephyr floats, as they were named were manufactured in a wide range of patterns and sizes by Zephyr Angler's Supplies Ltd of Lowestoft. Zephyr A.S. stopped manufacture around 1964, making any surviving examples at the very least 60 years old.