Hardy All Brass Transitional Perfect and leather case: Hardy 2.75” Perfect late transitional all brass reel c.1892-1894 - with shaded “Rod In Hand” logo and unusual patent stamping on face, nickel silver frame pillars secured into deeply channelled incised outer frame, check work and mechanism all original and working, reel with overall dark to brown bronzing and patination and comes in a fitted Farlow’s leather block D shaped case. Scarce variation of early Hardy Perfect (2)