USA / Australia Challenge Match 1981 Signatures
Item PHH
This Item was Sold on 30 June 2020
for $95
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This Wycheproof sport hook is a vintage model made in the 1970s out of 6.5 mm Aussie plywood. In 1981 Brother Brian Thomas took this hook to the 1981 Challenge Match between the USA and Australia. He obtained signatures from all of the participants. This hook is in very nice condition. It has the old Wycheproof stamp on the reverse side of the elbow. I purchased this hook from Brother Brian Thomas in 2007 when he was selling his collection to raise money to support the Fred Hollows charity that provides eye care to low income patients throughout South East Asia. This model is is a very good flyer with a flight range of 30+ metres. It is unique. Brian only had one of these hooks signed by the competitors.
Bunny Read was one of Australia's best boomerang throwers and a major manufacturer for many years. He is the father of Leanne Read and the grandfather of the famous Baby Ben Loveland who won an accuracy tournament when he was only 2 years old. Bunny made an assortment of really nice hooks and traditional models out of Coachwood plywood. He would paint beautiful Australian art scenes on the elbow in less than 60 seconds using a unique brush and finger painting technique. Some of the traditional boomerangs that Bunny made were very large and there is a very famous video of Bunny throwing and catching an 8 foot boomerang on the television show "You Asked For it". Bunny's daughter, Leanne, is still producing quality boomerang products for the Boomerang Man. |
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