I only saw two boxes, by no means a representitive sample, and probably from the same maker. That was a long time ago.
I suspect in the post-WW II/Korean War era, Japanese used whatever wood they could salvage. Might be the wood originally came from a U.S. packing crate.
There have been auctions of similar sets, sometimes with a few flies and sometimes with bobbers or spinning lures offered on Ebay. None currently. You'd think a spin-fly combos were limited to Asia, but they were offered here in the US in fiberglass by at least local maker and at least one brought at VERY high prices. I was looking for vintage fiblerglass rods and saw one that sold for more than $1.2K apparently to someone who collects them or something. It was a rare brand name thing, I guess.
