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Silver Doctor: Price-Tannatt.
 

Tag : Silver thread and golden yellow floss.
Tail : A topping and Blue Chatterer.
Butt : Scarlet Berlin wool.
Body : Flat silver tinsel.
Ribs : Fine oval tinsel.
Throat : A pale blue hackle, followed by Widgeon.
Wing : Mixed-tippets in strands with strips of Golden Pheasant
tail over; "married" strands of scarlet, blue and yellow
Swan, Florican, Bustard, Peacock wing, and light,
mottled Turkey tail; "married" narrow strips of Teal and
barred Summer duck; narrow strips of brown Mallard
over; a topping over all.
Cheeks : Jungle Cock.
Head : Scarlet Berlin wool.

 
 
 
Silver Doctor : Hardy and Kelson (Wright).
 

Tag : Silver twist and yellow silk.
Tail : A topping (The inventor sometimes adds Chatterer).
Butt : Scarlet wool.
Body : Silver tinsel.
Ribs : Silver tinsel (oval).
Throat : A blue hackle and gallina.
Wings : Strands of tippet, summer duck, pintail, goldpheasant
tail, swan dyed yellow and light blue, bustard, mallard
and a topping.
Horns : Blue macaw.
Head : Scarlet wool.

 


 
Silver Doctor : Hale (Mr. Malloch).
 
Tag : Silver twist and golden floss.
Tail : A topping and Chatterer tied in Vertical.
Butt : Scarlet wool.
Body : Silver tinsel.
Ribs : Silver tinsel (oval).
Hackle : Blue.
Throat : Gallina.
Wings : Mixed; Golden Pheasant tippet and tail, silver grey Turkey, Bustard, Summer duck, and Swan dyed
            yellow, red, and blue: topping over.
Horns : Blue Macaw.
Head : Scarlet wool.
 
 
 
Silver Doctor : P.D. Malloch, Fishing Gazette, 1886. Thanks to Colin Innes.
Tag : Silver twist and golden yellow floss.
Tail: A crest and blue chatterer.
Butt : Scarlet wool.
Body : Flat silver tinsel ribbed with oval silver tinsel.
Hackle : Medium blue, over this guinea fowl.
Wings : Fibres of golden pheasant; tippet and tail, silver-grey turkey, bustard, wood duck, swan feathers dyed red,
            yellow, and blue a fibre of blue and red macaw at each side, crest over wing.
Head : Scarlet wool
 
 
 
Silver Doctor : Walbran. The British Angler. 1889. Thanks to Colin Innes.
Tag : Silver tinsel and golden floss.
Tail : A topping and chatterer.
Butt : A turn of red crewel.
Body : Silver tinsel.
Ribbed : Silver oval.
Hackle : Greenish blue with teal at shoulder.
Wings : Under wings, strips of tippet; over wings, pheasant’s tail, bustard, blue, red, and yellow swan, peacock’s wing,
            mallard, summer duck, teal, and guinea fowl, with a topping over all.
Horns : Blue macaw.
Head : A turn of red crewel.
 
 
 
 
Silver doctor : Kelson. Land and water cards c. 1885 Thanks to Colin Innes.
 
 

Tag : Silver twist and dark yellow silk.

Tail : A topping. (Lately the inventor adds kingfisher).

Butt : Dark scarlet wool.

Body : Silver tinsel (flat).

Ribs : Silver tinsel (oval).

Throat : A blue hackle and gallina.

Wings : Connected strands of tippet, summer duck, pintail, golden pheasant tail, swan, dyed light yellow and light blue,
            mallard, and bustard, with a topping.

Horns : Blue macaw.

Head : Dark scarlet wool.
 
 
 
Silver Doctor : Francis Francis 1867.
 
 
Tag : Silver tinsel.
Tail : A topping.
Butt : Red crewel.
Body : Silver tinsel.
Hackle : Blue.
Shoulder : Brown, with a speckled Hallina over.
Wings : Chiefly Pintail, with a few red and blue fibers and two toppings over it.
Head : Red Crewel.
 
 
 
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