Rubbish on eb*y

Someone will buy it and be very happy 🙂

Each to his/her/their own :diablo:

Pssst….wanna buy a Sopwith Camel ejector seat, Mark? Andy Saunders

Oooh yes please, and I’ll pay you with a wad of 9-bob notes!

Pssst….wanna buy a Sopwith Camel ejector seat, Mark? Andy Saunders

Yeah- I seen a “Genuine” Spitfire Machmeter offered on Ebay not so long ago!-seems that if it fits on an old plane it fits on a spit!-The Machmeter in question was made 15 years after the last Spit was manufactured-and the vendor swore blind that a subsonic piston engined fighter was capable of over Mach 1!-Told him to go ask Col Chuck Yeagher about that one.

I reckon I can beat that – a while ago I saw a cabin altimeter for…a Swordfish!!!
So that’s an instrument used to indicate the level of cockpit pressurisation in an open-cockpit aeroplane! Priceless!

Yeah- I seen a “Genuine” Spitfire Machmeter offered on Ebay not so long ago!-seems that if it fits on an old plane it fits on a spit!-The Machmeter in question was made 15 years after the last Spit was manufactured-and the vendor swore blind that a subsonic piston engined fighter was capable of over Mach 1!-Told him to go ask Col Chuck Yeagher about that one.

Brings big bucks these days so there is plenty of temptation to produce fakes and it is relatively easy given the nature of the originals. A real pity that but the unscrupulous are always with us.

A couple of months ago a friend of mine picked up a trench art Etrich Taube made out of a cartridge case. Whoever had made it did a lovely job.

Interesting story about Ebay in Oz here:
http://www.warbirdz.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=692

Beats me how they had so much time to make trench art, maybe if they had banned the making of it, the wars may have ended sooner ! The trenches must have been filled with little workshops churning out souveneirs.

I partly recall a quote from somwhere that Trench Warfare was 99% boredom % 1% sheer terror (may have misrecalled the actual %s). But whatever the case it certainly does seem that many soldiers had time to pass making such items – & very good most of them were at it too – the workmanship on most genuine items is remarkable – The french even had national competitions run by the country’s newspapers! You don’t see crude dribbles of solder all over the place and horrible deep file marks (let alone the angle-grinder marks on some fake pieces!).

Yes Bill the pathetic cast brass plane is a dead giveaway – its all of 2 weeks old, but that aside the clumsy proportions of the piece and appallingly crude workmanship scream “I was knocked together yesterday!” No self-respecting erk. let alone pilot would have ever put his name or reputation to this!

Many of the fake pieces seem to have an aviation theme which is why I thought this forum was the place to air this issue – I have tried making eB*y aware, but they are simply not interested 🙁

Beats me how they had so much time to make trench art, maybe if they had banned the making of it, the wars may have ended sooner ! The trenches must have been filled with little workshops churning out souveneirs.

Sad to say the words contrived, rubbish and ebay also extend to Aviation relics, and parts, amazing how many things are labelled Spitfire when they clearly are not, as for the histories of items I have seen several items on there with clearly fake histories.

Caveat Emptor – Buyer Beware

I totally agree about some of the stuff on ebay…..you have to be SO CAREFUL….I dont collect ‘trench art’ and if you hadn’t said it was junk i wouldn’t have known, apart from the dodgy looking aircraft which looks recent manufacture. I do collect RAF ww11 period items and even with my limited knowledge i have seen some awful stuff….some obviously fake, some original but made to look ww11 etc…..

Think he means ‘stored in a dry loft’ but still which ever way you slice it, it spells out lump of junk to me.

I am no expert on trench art but that sure as hell is not!!!!!!.

John.