The wife and I met a couple today and the gentleman brought out a bamboo rod that he said belonged to his grandfather. He has no intentions of selling it, he just wanted to know a little more about it. Not being very knowledgeable on Bamboo, I told him about FAOL and that I would post the description here and I hope someone can give me some info on this rod. It was a 3 piece rod and on the butt end above the handle it had a sticker that had on it: JC Higgins, Sears & Roebuck and under the sticker in black ink was the number 3034. That is the only markings I saw on it. Any info I can relay back to him will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.