Usually, when the reel-maker decided to stop making reels the shop closed down with him. The higher the prices, the more people were precluded from purchasing the reels, therefore, making them scarcer.
The materials used by these shops were generally of better quality and, because they were handmade of fine materials, the price was consistently much higher. Handmade reels took more time to make and were usually the products of small shops that did not have a high output but instead, made high-quality reels. The more of these factors that a reel possesses, the more its chances of being valuable increases. Only when you start putting these important factors together does the value of a reel start to increase.
