The image above is a detail from a photograph viewable at https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-s...h-yorkshire-1961-artist-michael-28344081.html and captioned "Sports shop interior, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1961. The interior of Sugg Sports in central Sheffield. The photograph shows one of the rooms where some of the sportswear was on display, including some Lee Cooper jeans and snorkeling and scuba diving equipment."
I have numbered the items of early-1960s diving equipment on display, attempting to identify them all. I would particularly welcome help in identifying the speargun (10) as you are the experts in the underwater hunting field. As for the other items, here is my take below:
1. Advertisement for Dunlop Aquafort Wet Suits. These were unusual for their time as they were made from yellow neoprene for high visibility.
2. Advertisement for Heinke Hans Hass underwater swim gear. Heinke was one of several diving equipment companies licensed to manufacture the range of fins and masks designed by legendary Austrian diver Hans Hass and known in the 1950s as "System Hans Hass".
3. Single-snorkel mask with ball valve and triangular faceplate. Probably from the Clipper product range of Haffenden-Richborough of Sandwich, Kent, before the company launched its Britmarine brand in December 1962.
4. Swim mask with triangular faceplate. Probably from the Clipper product range of Haffenden-Richborough.
5. Swim goggles. Probably from the Clipper product range of Haffenden-Richborough.
6. Swim goggles. Probably from the Clipper product range of Haffenden-Richborough.
7. Snorkel tube with ball valve. Probably from the Clipper product range of Haffenden-Richborough.
8. Diving mask. Probably E. T. Skinner & Co. (Typhoon) Blue Star model.
9. Heinke Hans Hass Swim Mask box containing the following mask:
10. Speargun. Help wanted in identifying manufacturer and model!
11. Single-snorkel mask with ball valve and oval faceplate. Manufacturer unknown.
12. Adjustable open-heel swim fins. Probably from the Clipper product range of Haffenden-Richborough.
13. Snorkel tube with ball valve. Probably from the Clipper product range of Haffenden-Richborough.
14. E. T. Skinner & Co. (Typhoon) Blue Star Diving Mask box containing the following mask:
Thank you for your attention. Please feel free as well to complete, or correct any errors in, the information I have posted about these fourteen items.
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