Most people who produce the replica’s are responsible to say so. The difficulties are when they change hands several times through many owners to the point no one knows where they have originated from and they are unwittingly sold as an original.

Interesting :
http://m.ebay.com/itm/WW2-P-38-LIGHTNING-AIRCRAFT-CONTROL-WHEEL-REPLICA-CUSTOM-STAND-NICE-/252871720662?hash=item3ae0543ed6%3Ag%3AOTgAAOSwRUhY84lq&_trkparms=pageci%253A4c9b80f7-22d4-11e7-a007-74dbd18004c7%257Cparentrq%253A7811d85b15b0aa18b13add50ffff4660%257Ciid%253A1

Publicity stunt or not, if someone purchased the canopy as a laugh and decided not to go ahead, the seller would initially be billed £6,000 eBay fees. Enough to give you a sleepless night or two for a few weeks, dangerous ground when you do things for show or publicity.

Thanks for the link, interesting to see that they are looking in the future to be the UK’s biggest annual aerojumble / militaria event. I wish them well, there’s certainly been a demise over the years on aerojumbles. Holding it on an active airfield is appealing.

When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today.

Sad reflection on the idiots that we have in today’s society. They haven’t got a clue how lucky they are. They wouldn’t have been able to do this under a facist dictatorship if the war had been lost.

I read it wrong, didn’t realise it was just the column although having read it again it does point it out in the listing.

Not sure if the advertising of a commercial site is allowed on here, Mods ? I know if an individual puts items for sale it gets removed from the forum. Most people Know of the site and its over the top prices, but if money is no object ……. The Hurricane seat adjuster is not a Hurricane seat adjuster, the Hurricane seat is probably from a early Meteor, it is the same as a Hurricane though. The price of the seat is crazy I have seen them for £500 – £1000, that’s about the going rate.

I think this query has been raised before and the answer was that Spitfirespares regularly pay for advertisement space in Flypast magazine, therefore they are allowed to be referred too on this forum. Personally I don’t see a problem with that if they are financially supporting the magazine. No doubt the financial contributions of all advertisers help keep the magazine in business which in turn helps support the existence of this forum.
I have no connection with this company(SS) but just passing on what has been previously raised on this forum previously a couple of years back.