NICE VINTAGE SPLIT WILLOW LEATHER TRIM CREEL W/HARNESS

Nice vintage c.1930's tightly woven split willow fishing creel with leather trim. This creel retains its original rear carry handle, and has a front closing strap and buckle! This creel measures 15" wide across its bottom. There is a 9" measure across the rear top of the lid. It has a wonderful amber/copper finish with a dark brown leather trim! It was woven in Japan which is where most of all creel baskets came from for the American Tackle Shops. This includes the creel baskets used by the famous Oregon Creel makers who imported the baskets from the far east and then aplied their saddle leather with nice tooling designs! It has diagonal leather trim strips. An aftermarket leather shoulder harness was found with it. Please click on its image for additional closeups. Great one to collect or display!