5Pattern history and manufacturer context
Series
Ronn Lucas Sr. lists the Harrison & Bartleet among the hook patterns he sells, in sizes 3/0 through 14/0 V. Sizes 3/0 to 8/0 are also offered as XL versions, a term the product page does not define V.
Design lineage
The pattern carries the name of Harrison & Bartleet, a late nineteenth-century firm. The maker’s product page says the pattern matches hooks also called Harrison’s. It notes that Harrison & Bartleet and Harrison & Co. were separate firms of that period, citing Pennell (1885) V.
Dating
The maker's shop history places his first hooks in July 2006, so no Lucas hook predates that year V.
The specimen's card is dated 4/18/18 P; what that date records is not known.
No end date is established.
Ronn Lucas Sr. — Ronn Lucas Sr. bought Ron Reinhold's hook-making business in May 2006 and set up the equipment in Milwaukie, Oregon, where the first Lucas hooks were made that July
V. A 2015 profile describes his output as a wide range of blind-eye salmon hooks
V.
Read the maker’s history → Before the Shop. Before he bought Ron Reinhold's hook business, Lucas bent large hooks that Reinhold then hardened and japanned for him V.