REEL MUSEUM

REEL MUSEUM is an unofficial, fan-made museum & appraisal app for classic fishing reels. Centered on ABU's Ambassadeur and Cardinal families, it gathers the looks, eras, and rough second-hand price ranges of legendary reels — presented like a quiet night gallery you can browse at your own pace. ■ Collection Hall (the "dex") Browse classic reels as exhibit-plate cards. Tap any card to open a full detail sheet with its traits, history, price range, and year-and-color variants. Filter by shape (round / low-profile) or popularity, and search by model name or feature. ■ Year & color variants — 81 of them, across 26 models The same model can be a different reel depending on the year it left the factory or the color it was finished in. A 1972 Big-A 6500C, the brown 6500 built for only ten months, the 1989 Japan-only Black Special 2500C, the wine-red single-lot run of 1992 — each one is documented with what to look for, when it was made, and what it tends to sell for. Every entry is drawn from collector-community primary sources (ORCA/Fred Ribb material, realsreels.com, long-running Japanese collector archives, specialist dealers). Where the sources disagree, we say so instead of inventing an answer. ■ Appraisal Room (read the year) Enter a reel's foot number and the app estimates its production year from the stamp format. Because the numbering rules changed over the years, it never asserts a single answer — it shows candidates with a confidence level, and honestly flags uncertain cases. ■ AI Appraisal & digital certificate Snap your reel — or a photo from a marketplace listing — and AI estimates the model family. Adding a photo of the foot stamp improves accuracy. You can issue the result as a museum-style digital certificate to save or share. (AI provides identification hints; it does not guarantee authenticity or value.) ■ Put your own reel on display We're collecting real-reel photos for the dex, now down to the individual variant. Found the champagne-gold 5000D, or a genuine red-thumb-bar original? Send a photo and it becomes that variant's exhibit, credited "Photo by: your name." Contributors earn honorary titles, and each accepted photo grants an appraisal ticket. ■ Membership (free tier included) - Visitor (free): browse the dex + 3 AI appraisals total - Silver: 5 AI appraisals/month, detailed search, price deep-dive, collection value - Gold: 20 AI appraisals/month, all premium features - Platinum: 50 AI appraisals/month, appraisal by a higher-tier AI model ■ 14 languages, worldwide Available in 14 languages — share the same museum with enthusiasts around the world. ———————— This is an unofficial app not affiliated with any manufacturer. All years, prices, and appraisal results are reference information for enthusiasts and do not guarantee accuracy, authenticity, or asset value. Price data was surveyed in July 2026, mainly on the Japanese second-hand market. Please make real transactions at your own discretion. 【About In-App Purchases】 - Each membership is a monthly auto-renewing subscription. - Payment is charged to your Apple ID and renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. - Manage or cancel anytime in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. - Terms: https://reel-museum.miuraharu0421.workers.dev/legal/terms-en.html - Privacy: https://reel-museum.miuraharu0421.workers.dev/legal/privacy-en.html