Doug Carpenter's Collection of Grube Lures
Doug Carpenter's Lures

Doug's Grubes
Doug provided the following info:
These lures were made by W. J. Grube of Delaware, Ohio. He was born in 1874 and died in 1954. Grube produced a large variety of the earlier rubber lures. The oldest fishing lure patent to his credit that I have found so far is dated 1917. He also had several patents related to the automotive industry. The box in the lower left corner is printed with a patent date of 1926. Bill's Lucky Strike Minnow is probably the lure most associated with Grube.
It's interesting that prior to WW II, he commonly printed a single or multiple swastika on his lure cards along with the words Good Luck. (Prior to the Nazis the swastika was widely considered to represent good luck.)


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Here's a link to Doug's email
 cdcarpenter@msn.com




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Posted: September 28th, 2004