Believe it or not, there are some traps that are rare and collectible. In here I will include a little on two groups of these traps. One of these groups were called NEWHOUSE traps, and there were said to be the best traps in
the world.They were made by a man named Sewell Newhouse who was born into the
trade of blacksmithing in 1806. He forged his first trap when he was about 17
years old, and made them from then on. He would make them and sell them to the
Indians he grew up with.
Pretty soon, they became famous for quality, and
people would come from all over to get his famous traps. In 1805, after many
years of making traps by hand, he started manufacturing them. They came in 25
different sizes, from gopher traps, to a bear trap weighing 42 pounds! The prices
paid for these traps differ greatly, from $30, to $3,000.
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The other group of traps was made by a man named Walter .A. Gibbs. He was a very inventive man, patenting over 16 different traps, most for muskrat. In 1913, he bought a marsh in Maryland for a duck hunting place, but he found that there were many muskrats in it, so he invented his own trap. It was called the Gibbs Two Trigger, and it had a kill bar that fired after the trap sprung, keeping the 'rat from twisting out. This was the first coil spring trap ever produced. He also produced a hawk trap, a "dope" trap (which when set off would bring a little capsule of poison for the animal to chew on), a "single grip" trap (which was a coilspring trap), and a "armadillo" style trap, which was like a cage trap that had a trap in side it. when the trap was tripped, the cage would close, then the trap would let go, and you could let the muskrat go elsewhere. The two trigger traps are worth from $20, to $250, the "dope" trap is worth $850 to $2500, the single grip traps are worth $10 to $90, and the "armadillo" style traps are worth about $2,000.
If you like
collecting, and you like traps, then you would like trap collecting. If you
want to be a trap collector, then I would say do 2 things: get The Trap
Collectors Guide by Tom Parr and Blaise Andreski, and become a member of the North
American Trap Collectors Association (N.A.T.C.A). It is $25 a year, and you get
great benefits, like a 1 year subscription to TRAPS, the current patch, and
other great stuff.
Also, if you have any questions, then please contact me at: furtrader101@outlook.com.
Here are some other collectible trap brand names (and pics).
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| triumph #1 - 3 jaw |
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| diamond 21 |
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| Blake and lamb #2 wl teeth |
Hawley and Norton
victor JUMP
Gibbs
Blake and lamb
Newhouse
triumph
diamond (should have a diamond in the pan)
Sargent
Cooper
Kangaroo
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Thanks, Caleb
