Trap collectors

[Bird Catcher 94]

Anyone else on here interested in collecting vintage traps and other bygones. I got a good few old traps, bird and animal plus old shepherds crooks and eel spears. Always picking them up at boot or farm sales. 

 

[cragman 2,635]

I don’t collect but I have an old gin trap somewhere going rusty. Fascinated by the different traps that are or were used. When I visited Canada a few years ago, there were a couple of shops near to us that sold old traps, all kinds, beaver, muskrat, mouse rat etc. Wished I’d brought some home with me

[mackem 23,783]

28 minutes ago, cragman said:

I don’t collect but I have an old gin trap somewhere going rusty. Fascinated by the different traps that are or were used. When I visited Canada a few years ago, there were a couple of shops near to us that sold old traps, all kinds, beaver, muskrat, mouse rat etc. Wished I’d brought some home with me

I was on a farm last week in the sticks and saw an old muskie trap hanging up.Loads of muskrat around in the summer.