Eldredge, Everett R.
1957

Pickwick Ale Massachusetts Salt Water Guide Fishing Map

Rare Pickwick Ale Salt Water Fisherman's Guide map

DESCRIPTION: Very rare large original fishing map / advertising poster published and copyrighted by Haffenreffer Brewery, Boston, Massachusetts in 1957. No copies of this map are recorded anywhere online.

At bottom left, the map contains a photo and facsimile signature of Capt. Everett "Gunny" Eldredge holding a can of Pickwick Ale. Below the photo Eldredge is described as "Skipper of the Gannett II, Salt Water Sports Fishing Expert, Chatham, Mass."

Haffenreffer Brewery, established in 1870, was a former brewer in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. The Haffenreffer Brewery closed in 1965 and their brands, including Pickwick Ale, were sold to Narragansett Brewing Company. Everett R. ‘Gunny’ Eldredge (1909 - 1999) was born in Boston and raised in Chatham, Mass. During World War II he served in the Merchant Marine. Eldredge was a licensed charter boat captain, a taxidermist, artist, and a respected naturalist and teacher. He was the builder, owner and director of a nature day camp for boys, and later of Camp Malabar Sea Camp for boys from 1936 to 1951. He built and owned Eldredge Marine Basin at Oyster River, now the Chatham Yacht Basin. Eldredge was the author of the Pickwick Ale Massachusetts's Sportsman's Guide.

CREATOR: Eldredge, Everett R.

PUBLICATION DATE: 1957

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States

BODY OF WATER: Cape Cod Bay, Atlantic Ocean

CONDITION: Good.  Signs of age mainly on verso. Tiny chip from bottom edge with no impact to the image. Tiny edge tears.

COLORING: Process color.

ENGRAVER: 

SIZE: 24 " x 35 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 150

PRICE: $1450

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