Otto Von Kienbusch's Framed Flies
Framed Flies, 1997
mounted flies, 6 1/2 by 21 in.

Carl Otto Kretzschmar von Kienbusch (1884-1976) was a New York businessman, armor collector, and avid fisherman. He donated his impressive angling book collection to the Princeton University Library, where he was a graduate of the class of 1906.

Adding to his fly fishing bona fides, Kienbusch owned forty-five miles of the Patapedia River near the Restigouche, one of his Garrison bamboo rods is in the collection of the American Museum of Fly Fishing, and he was a member of the Anglers' Club of New York.

Provenance: Literature: Dale R. Roylance, "The Angler as Bibliophile: Princeton University's Kienbusch Collection," The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 50, no. 2, Winter 1989, pp. 169-188.

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