Spitfire propeller e-bay ?

If you were bidder number 5, you failed to secure the item at £190 as this did not reach the reserve, although the reserve had been reduced.

Is it a Spitfire blade?

At first glance does not look like the right shape to me, but photos can be deceptive. As the blade drawing number seems to be missing on the blade itself, the only real way to identify it is by the 3 sets of stamped ident numbers underneath the adaptor on the root base( block no, drawing no, serial no), if it’s a Rotol blade.

If the blade height and max blade width were known, more info could be gleaned, alongside the likely blade manufacturing process, which can often be identified with broken blades, where the sheath is missing.
At first glance the wood pattern does not seem to fit the ‘Jablo’ or ‘hydulignum’ pattern that Spitfire Rotol blades were made of.
As the coloured identity disc is missing, it is more difficult to identify, they were originally either pink, yellow, or sometimes green. Pink is correct for Spitfires. The wood grain may possibly be spruce or douglas fir (yellow), but that is only a guess. The blade rotation is correct for a Merlin engine but that is all one can say. So with the blade set numbers missing inside the identity disc circle, we don’t know at present whether it is off a three of 4 blade airscrew, or exactly what engine type.

If anyone wants to find out if this blade still has it’s blade drg no indented underneath, I just might be able to identify it from my records.
Hope this helps, always willing to find out more. FH.

Very cheap so far and half way through its’ listing!