Printed product names · date unknown
Original packaging
Packaging preserves language that can be lost when lures are studied on their own.
- Visible evidence
- The legible product list includes Wonder Spoons, Weedless Wonder Spoons, Surface Lures, minnows, flies, fly rods and casting rods.
- Interpretive limit
- A product category printed on a box supports its association with the company’s offered range. It does not establish that Lauby manufactured every listed item in-house.
Sources & record notes
This record describes the collection photograph. A dated catalog or other contemporary source has not yet been attached.
Photographic or documentary record LLA-REC-0006 · Reviewed September 2026. Record identifiers describe the material shown here; they are not accession numbers for authenticated physical objects.
Back to the collectionProvenance
The photograph is retained from the earlier Lauby Lures website. The original photographer and capture date have not been established.
Cite this record
Lauby Lures. “Original packaging.” Record LLA-REC-0006. Updated September 13, 2026. https://www.laubylures.com/collection/packaging. Accessed [your access date].
Publisher: Lauby Lures. Submit a correction or additional evidence.
A record of commercial ambition
The boxes name a wider tackle range than the familiar spoon alone. The catalog reproduction confirms offerings of minnows, fly-rod spoons, casting rods, and flies alongside the casting lures. Slusar discusses both printed boxes and later orange packaging in relation to production changes. 1939 catalog, reproduced in Slusar, pp. 369–371; Slusar, p. 372.
Packaging supplies product language and context. It does not establish that a loose lure and a particular box originally belonged together.
From the printed record
Instructions from the box
The maker’s instructions
The complete Wonder Spoon instruction sheet reproduced in Slusar, p. 372. The maker explains how retrieve speed affects the lure’s depth.
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