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06-13-2009, 03:14 PM
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Problem is the 50 or so in sleeves or shrink wrapped but not framed. Rotating is the route to go there days as about 150 in 8x10 size and a further 60-65 full size is all the walls hold. Thought needed to avoid making the walls nothing but holes. We rotate about every 3-4 months and put up some that have been down and stored in "art closets." Last edited by Yerger; 06-13-2009 at 03:20 PM. | |
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06-13-2009, 03:42 PM
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| Yerger, is that a "Warpath over the Pacific" print by Robert Taylor I see?
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06-13-2009, 07:02 PM
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No, I think you mean "Air Apaches on the Warpath" if the gun nose B-25. Photos hard to take due to reflection, angle, glass, etc for many on the walls. I have 8-10 prints each by Phillips and West, and another 15-20 prints by various artists. My most sought and favorite is Frank Wootton, though few in the US seem to like him. The 19 I have of him are what I like most. My framed Robert Taylors at the moment are: Abbeville Boys After the Battle Air Apaches on the Warpath Band of Brothers Chennault’s Flying Tigers Closing the Gap Cloud Companions Combat over the Reich Coming Home Together Coming in over the Estuary Company of Heroes Desert Hawks Doolittle Raiders Eagles at Dawn Eagles out of the Sun Flight of Eagles Greycap Leader Hellcat Fury Helping Hand JV-44 Knights of the Eastern Front Lancaster under Attack Lightning Strike Marauder Mission Mission Completed Moonlighting Operation Chastise Return from Schweinfurt Running the Gauntlet Savage Skies Schweinfurt, The Second Mission Spitfires over Darwin Stormbirds over the Reich Strike and Return Strike and Strike Again Tally Ho Target Peenemunde Thunderheads over Ridge well Wings of Glory Winter’s Welcome I'll probably sell some of the collection to make a little room, a lot of those unframed I'd like to see on the walls such as a number by West, a couple Taylors, and a some Woottons I found last year. Just a space problem. Large format period photos are also a part, equally hard to find quality originals that prints are made available that are sharp. | |
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06-13-2009, 08:01 PM
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| Nice collection you have. I bought my first Taylor print in 1987. "Fourth Fighter Patrol", followed quickly with "JV-44". The Taylor print I like the best is "Swansong".
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06-13-2009, 08:27 PM
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| Awesome! . |
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06-13-2009, 09:02 PM
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| Fantastic collection you have there! Nowadays, I only have a couple of small Woodcock prints, plus my own originals and a heck of a lot of books and models. There are some Turner, Taylor and others I would have liked, but couldn't justify the secondary market costs, at three times the original prices, and often much more. I think the nearest I have of any value, although more special in other ways, are two of my own prints signed by aircrew and SOE, a photo signed by Ginger Lacey, and a book signed by 'Rolly' Beamont. The latter two were seen and met on a number of occassions, during aviation events.
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06-13-2009, 11:06 PM
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 | Yerger: That's a really impressive collection you have, it's stunning!  I'd love to collect, but these days I can't afford it as I'm unimployed. I do enjoy watching out for whatever I can find on the web, as well as ordinary posters in the few poster shops that we've got here in Denmark. It isn't much though, because it seems to me like there is no great interest in WW2 aviation art, and therefore there is no real market here, except maybe via the www.
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06-13-2009, 11:07 PM
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| My library is over 1200 volumes on all the WWII topics of interest for me, numerically most are on aircraft. Little new seems to appear in the past couple years as good as the out of print or other books I have. The unit/aircraft books from Finland, some of the recent Classic Publications books are about all. I end up sitting with a pile of old issues of "Wings" and "Airpower" to relax. The forever Ta-152 book from Monogram (now Eagle Editions owned) is the only other hot thing for me I see coming. Books like the Putnam series, etc are done these days, to much work probably and not commercial enough. Of the Taylor prints I like many, Knights of the Eastern Front and a number of the many B-17 prints among others. But my favorite individual prints are by Phillips and Wootton. |
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06-13-2009, 11:42 PM
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| Very impressive collection, Yerger! Unfortunately, I no longer have my book collection, and I never took the time to collect the artwork. I kick myself when I look back at all of the WWII pilots I knew and never once thought about having them autograph a photo for me. They were around me quite often when I was growing up, so I didn't give it a second thought.
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