those supercharger were used on P-38 and P-47 as well… what is weird is that they looked “coupled”, and what i know is that the P-47 had the two stage two speed supercharger..
Might sound a lil easy, but we might well be in front of a P-47 wreck, as we all know plane wrecks were often dropped in ponds during the war..

Alex

whenever u get tired of it send me a PM and I’ll give u my shipping address 😀 😉
Where does it come from exactly? this might help too.. U have any clue of the wood type?

Alex

i guess u r taking it too personally mate 😉
My first job was in a communications agency, I worked as photographer too and when we sold the pics we just sold the negatives, not the prints.. prints have no commercial value, apart for the cost of developing and the paper. We’d better talk about buying collectibles here, not buying pics..
If u want to pay 2.000 € for a pin it’s up to u, but this doesnt necessarily mean that it’s the value of the object.
My personal opinion is that a picture collector who spends 1000 € is not serious, but crazy… The satisfaction of a collector comes from making good deals too, not by spending ridiculous amounts of money for an item (and we’re talking about a darn piece of paper here..)..
I probably dont accept it because for me it’s far from any human comprehension, but we’re all different…

Alex

what I know is that I dont know if this print is worth 1.010 €uros.. any serious pic collector out there who wants to express his opinion about it?

Alex

ehehehehe and they told him “ben, u r gonna be high before the plane is even finished!” 😀 😀 😀

Alex

Working like buggery to get the T-6 tow-able to park her next to the Beech for ya – first time shes ever been on public show-

My good Spagetti eating chum Italian Harvard will also be turning up (whether he knows it or not 😀 ) on Sunday so how about a forum meet – say by the Beech at 11.30?

Who up 4 it?

Steve, DB,Chris you coming?

Fly ins are normally allowed but only if you pre-book with the airfield and again only at certain times…

ehehehe I’ll surely be there (like it or not innit? 😉 ) !!!!
No jokes, I’ve never seen/heard a Lightning on, it’s gonna be a real pleasure!! Seeing G-TOMC on her legs again is gonna be great too 🙂
The fact that I’m with a VIP of the day gives it a different taste 😀

Alex

P.S.
It’s spaghetti, not spagetti!! Despite my efforts your italian is still terrible!! 😀

Alex

Why is it nonsense with a print but not with a negative?
ebay proves there certainly is a market for photos, it’s just that you prefer watches. Many people (including myself) will tell you that spending thousands of euros on Luftwaffe watches is nonsense.
Why do you accuse a decent guy of a dirty trick? The magazines (both of them) used the print that they together got on ebay.

Uhm… if u have a print it’s just “a print”. Defining it the only known picture of the plane is pure nonsense, since u can print many copies out of a negative.. Under a commercial point of view u own a picture when u own the negative, otherwise u own a print (ok, a 1943 print but that’s it..), so there might be hundreds of copies around…
I would understand spending some cash for a nice print of the era, but 1.010 € for a rectangle of paper… pure feticism…
If u think that spending thousands of €uros for a watch is nonsense I cant help it.. a piece of machinery that runs great and keeps time like a digital watch after 60+ years is a jewel, period. U can spend 1.000 € to get a nice Omega of the ’40s or a print of a “what is it?” plane, it’s up to your tastes and sense of business 😉
U mean that both the magazines aquired the picture from the guy on ebay and then published it? didnt know about that, but this doesnt change the fact that u can find better ways of spending 1.000 €…

Alex