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Hi Andy;
My First aviation passion was collecting rare pre-WWII aero engines. ...Only made possible with my Dad's enthusiastic support for several decades. (At its height, our engine collection had 175 Different pre-WWII aero engines, 48 were WWI and earlier, and 19 were the only ones known of their type.)we also had a pretty fair amount of duplicate engines for sale and trade, that helped keep the collection improving) Then we found 395,000 pieces of WWI (NOT WWII) German and Austro-Hungarian Aircraft parts in Europe, from a former WWI Field repair depot that had been abandoned at the end of WWI ) The above items kept gaining us access to the back rooms and storage warehouses of many of the world's aero museums and collectors for supplying them and trading with them.Through the years, have had every thing from file drawers to truckloads of significant aviation archives, including much Waco Company (back to even BEFORE Weaver, and Advance predecessors, to 1915!) and good portions of Cliff Henderson's personal National Air Race archives; Several of the early Curtiss Companies, Wright-Martin Company, for its short existence, The First Glenn Martin company (from 1912-1916), good chunks of the Curtiss Wright Company, and numerous other Personal archives of history making pilots, and aircraft and engine designers *Some RARE ones, like the personal file storage cartons found in an abandoned shed in the Vermont Woods where prolific, important designer, Boris V. Korvin-Kroukovsky has lived his last years. Obscure name but he was the prolific Cheif Designer for EDO aircraft and quite a few of the Aeromarine Company designs..It is wonderful to read their letters, see their thoughts and plans and drawings and photos, and aviation business visions, with the REAL reasons they did so many of these historic projects. Very "Fly-On-The-Wall" history, at the TIME was being made, BY the People who were making it,. So often they will mention that their ideas in these boxes and volumes of correspondence are Private and not to be made public. for various reasons. Some of them dispel 100 year old, commonly accepted aviation Myths and the "assumptions" of later historians. Very exciting stuff. Also acquired a few hundred pieces of choice museum aero art, (many are dicumented ex-Smithsonian exhibits of many decaades ago by famous artist, and some amazing British stuff by J.M Bruce, former RAF Museum curator of many years. Late to the collections...came the more than 120,000 aviation negatives, and more than 35,000 photo prints, and glass slides and negatives etc from all countries, all Eras. Many of those are First Generation, Original aviation Company file photos..
After 45 years of doing that full-time, I now have the burden of finding new homes for it. Have moved all the aircraft, instruments and engines,on... now working through the archival/& signed historic documents/photos, and Original museum-grade, aviation art and aero photo and negative collections. I certainly have enjoyed it, all these years..
As per your member name, Just ONE ofthe photo neg collections, has some 2000 DH negatives, of which 557 are DH82, and some 400 DH82 photo prints, from a British photographer/author's life-long collection
_________________ hundreds of images of aero art, memorabilia, photos and artifacts at;
www.memaerobilia.com
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