Unlike the light-wire Phillips pattern in Francis Francis’, 1867, ”A Book on Angling,” this is a heavy-wire pattern. Rick Whorwood acquired a nearly indisputable original (with provenance) that is an exact match of the hook used in the “Colonel” in Tolfrey’s book.

Rick loaned the hook to me for making the replicas. The original can be seen in the Winter 2001 issue of Fly Tyer magazine. The point on the original is so crude that I abandoned it and substituted it with the Dublin style.