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PO. Box 393, Mercer Island, WA 98040, phone (206) 232-9060. Email: lureguru@aol.com, and Steve Lumpkin, 8212 Timbercreek Dr., Cincinnati, Ohio 45244, phone (513) 474-0832. Email: ATlwan@aol.com.
Incidentally, back in the 1890s folks who enjoyed camping, fishing, hiking and other outdoor activities and ventures, wore certain devices to keep from getting bitten such as mosquito head nets and mosquito shields. The head net was a device made of white tarleton netting, fitted with five light weight round steel springs or bands, that when fully expanded or opened, was made to be worn over a hat or cap on one's head extending down over the neck and shoulders protecting the wearer from insect bites. When not in use, the head net (which was collapsible) could be folded and put into one's coat pocket. Whereas the mosquito hat shield, made of sturdy netting, was attached around the wide brim of a muslin fishing hat, and was made to hang down over one's head and neck to keep mosquitoes away, and when not in use, the light weight hat shield could be rolled up and carried or stuffed into one's pocket. Then, too, the 1929 Johnson Smith & Co. Catalogue (produced in Racine, Wisconsin) illustrated and offered, the Chinese Mosquito Punk (made to repel and drive away mosquitoes) which measured 14-inches long) and sold for 25 cents per bundle of 200. If you find, or come pcross, any of these or any other old or odd
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