Vintage sales and promotional Brochures ( Farnborough Airshow )

If you want to get rid of them all at once, I’d contact a dealer e.g. Simon Watson at the Aviation Bookshop or Andy Doran at the Falconwood Transport Bookshop. 

If you want the hassle of selling them yourself, then just list them on Ebay for a minimal amount and see what happens.

If collected from Farnborough they are unlikely to be very valuable, as sales brochures are usually short and don’t generally have any unique information you won’t find elsewhere. Some specifically popular aircraft types might be collectable I guess.

If you have any brochures for rare items like aircraft, engines, radars or missiles that didn’t get produced en masse – like TSR.2, Rotodyne, etc.  or even designs that were never built – this kind of material would sell well to people on my forum (secretprojects.co.uk). 

I spent a few days in the dutch Aviodrome aviation museum archieves and during those few days 3 families passed by with the inheritance of the parents with aviation related items. Not to offend the families we gracefully accepted the inheritance, but almost 99% of the books and folders ( Fokker ) went straight into the waste paper bin.

Some years ago I tried, by way of online auction, to sell a number of aviation related documents (which didn’t fit within my sphere of interest). These included several SBAC Farnborough show programmes, dating from the forties and fifties, but they attracted no interest. Perhaps they had (have?) no appeal to collectors or they were (are?) more common and plentiful than I perceived? Thus I returned them to the attic – where I presume they are still!

But in an endeavour to adopt a more positive note, might I suggest, Un Named, that you try approaching one or more of the auction houses that hold specialist sales and/or deal in aviation ephemera? A quick google search suggests Dominic Winter, Bonhams, Onslows, Lyme Bay Auctions and Tennants. If none of these are geographically close to you, they might be prepared to value the documents by viewing scans of them. Whatever, good luck in your efforts to dispose of them.

And I care not for thee dhfan. 

I certainly do not know everything. But I can usually find the information if it still exists. 

If you or your alter ego want to remove me from the site, fine. But if you do, make sure you remove all posts too.

Ignore Oracal, he’s just an unpleasant person who appears to think he knows everything.

I’ve never used an ‘ignore’ button on a forum but if there was one here he’d be the first ever.

I don’t understand why anyone has a problem with the original question. We all collect items in our lifetime which we later decide to sell on for a variety of reasons.
It could well have been that the original poster had fallen on hard times and was looking to sell to pay bills etc. This was even more likely in the current climate where a lot of people have lost income due to Covid.

Offering items to a museum is a nice gesture but not all museums want to take on mountains of old paperwork and many don’t have the facilities to store or archive a mass of documents.

In my view it is very difficult to value old brochures and similar publications and I suspect that the market for them is quite small particularly in an age when many look to the internet for information rather than collecting and storing books and brochures .
I have seen the brochure for the sale of the contents of the Historic Aircraft Museum Southend on Ebay for £75 but it was still there months later so it was obviously overpriced. 
If you look at some out of print books on Amazon the prices vary massively for the same book. I have bought motorsport books on Amazon for considerably less then the same item on Ebay and vice versa. 

At the end of the day I suspect the answer to value is that they are worth whatever you can get someone to give you for them. Sorry if you feel this isn’t very helpful but I think you need to decide what amount of money you would be prepared to accept to part with the brochures and set your own price or risk putting them on Ebay and let them find their own level.     

You could try contacting Channel 4. They have a new game show for real enthusiasts who want to sell stuff on. I think it’s titled “Buy it or burn it” 

Sorry that you seem to have interpreted both responses as being antagonistic, which I am sure they were not.
My £5  remark was meant to be useful, as it was the only one of your list I could find for sale. But it seems you have been doing research anyway, so you actually already had a reasonable  idea of value, yes ?

I guess if a couple of lines on a forum have finally punctured your enthusiasm for old aircraft, it must have been pretty much over anyway.  It is a shame your Meteor went overseas, always discouraging for the restorers and volunteers. 

The forum needs all the input and supporters it can find right now. There would be no point in chasing people off, by being deliberately snarky. 

Well well well, I poke my head above the parapet and see what happens.

Stuff it !

Maybe instead of taking them on I should have seen them all burned like the other 15 tea chest full of same era brochures then ! 

Who are you to judge me selling them. The money, if any,  was going to go to a charity if you must know.  A museum has always been an option but I guess you think I am daft enough to not have thought of that or tried that Hmm !

£5 !! there are others for £18 so don’t dumb it down to make me look a fool. I am quite capable of doing that myself.

Its so nice to see the vitriol continues even after several years of keeping quiet. 

Over the last 10 years my love and passion of 40 years for all things aviation has finally been virtually extinguished by the know it all’s, the jealous and the darn right un helpful and nasty.

In hind sight I wish we had never bothered to bust our guts to get WA591 back in the air either now for all it was worth. 

Thank you everyone in your collective efforts to destroy a life long interest. 

No wander preservation is struggling. 

There is a Napier Eland brochure on Ebay,    buy it now – £5.00.

I would guess that your collection is worth a small fortune,  very small indeed 

You were given these and now you wish to sell them. Wouldn’t it be better to try and find a museum to donate them too?