Where did I put that lottery ticket ? Priceless stuff, lets hope it finds its
rightful home. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-30754043
By: Creaking Door - 10th January 2015 at 19:57
“Left a bit skipper, left…right, left, up a bit…”
…hold on, back a bit!
By: Moggy C - 10th January 2015 at 15:22
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
By: Snapper - 10th January 2015 at 15:17
Changed the course? Really?
Really.
“Left a bit skipper, left…right, left, up a bit…”
By: Moggy C - 10th January 2015 at 15:02
In view of the other thread you have to wonder what lengths the auctioneers have gone to in establishing the provenance of these items.
Changed the course? Really?
Moggy
By: Creaking Door - 10th January 2015 at 08:51
I’m sure they will but I would also advise caution here too with regards to the ‘provenance’ of these items.
I am sure that everybody will recognise the ‘tuppenny bombsight’ and I can see why such an item would be preserved as a souvenir immediately following the Dambusters Raid; it had little value and was unique to the raid itself.
As for the other items, well, did the navigation instrument and the map light ‘belong’ to the crew or were they part of the aircraft? And if they were ‘pilfered’ by the crew wouldn’t they be more likely to be pilfered by the navigator than the pilot, Squadron Leader David Maltby (the source of the provenance)? Wouldn’t the same also be true of the bombsight and the Bomb-Aimer?
As for the ‘Barnes Wallis’ marbles; how on earth would David Maltby get hold of them? Weren’t the marbles used at the very early stages of the project; why were they ‘preserved’ unless by the children who owned them?
Guy Gibson’s collar-box? David Maltby was killed on operations four months after the Dambusters Raid yet Gibson wasn’t killed until a year later in September 1944; how would the ‘provenance link’ work in this case (and I know the BBC article doesn’t absolutely state that that is the link) unless David Maltby ‘stole’ it shortly after the raid?
Edit: having re-read the article I may have got the wrong-end-of-the-stick with regard to the provenance of all these items having the same source (David Maltby)…..caution, caution, caution!
By: trumper - 10th January 2015 at 08:31
Dambusters stuff for sale
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-30754043
“A sight used to guide the “bouncing bomb” that changed the course of World War Two has been put up for sale.
Towcester auctioneers J P Humbert is offering the Dambusters wooden “Dann” bomb sight for sale for an estimated £20,000 to £25,000.
It was used during the British bombing raid on the Mohne dam in Germany on 17 May 1943.
The sight is one of five pieces of Dambusters memorabilia being auctioned off.”
By: j_jza80 - 10th January 2015 at 04:01
Fantastic. I’m sure they’ll exceed the estimate by a good amount.
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