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One for the fishing historians.
These ancient hooks are on display in the Egyptian exhibit in the Louvre
I reckon the one bottom right is a corker, for that long back. Hook manufacturers had a pretty good blue print to work to.
Well I've researched this subject and it started with gorges, which was a stick with the line connected to the middle. Then it progressed to metal gorges,like a bit of wire with a loop in the middle to attach the line, then as time went by it ended up a hook. These things were found at one site in Switzerland, At Nauchetal on the shore of one of their lakes.
But things varied all over the place. Chinese used Gold hooks around 200BC, the Egyptians had steel hooks with barbs, as did tye greeks etc.' It could be that those things were actually "angles" cut from bushes. And they were in use way back.
Bloke JD wrote a poem, in 1400/ splash ought dot time and described angles. He was on about Noah or someone similar who caught fish since everything else was drowned. Big flood like. Cheers Max
Yeh Max the 2 at the top were carved from timber the other is metal. There were some embalmed Nile Perch in the display also. From a fishermans point of view, I found it very interesting.
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