Tim West: ""gonw"... there's a painting made for Jacobs"
I have both an impressionistic painting done for JJ and hung in his house and a colored drawing done in colored Crayola supposedly done by none other than Jacobs himself for the author Neal O’Connor and will post each shortly, but unfortunately there was a catch in both of these as “in my analysis", I can prove that old JJ did not really draw either of these but did verified the colors used in each. Hold tight and I’ll post them both.
MK2: Do you know any of the collectors ?
Nope. I "know of them" by reference, but did not know any of them myself, but I do speak to folks who were their friends.
The big time collectors were the Authors: Neal O'Connor, Bill Puglisi, Ed Ferko, Peter Grosz, Bruno Schmaling to name a few, I believe Schmaling is still around, the rest I think have all passed away and other than Ferko, their collections are locked away somewhere. Most of these guys and a few members currently of "theAerodrome" really formed the core of "Cross and Cockade": the ultimate historical journal of the subject.
If we could only get the collection combined and put a wikipedia/google engine over them the world would be a beter place
I the case of Peter Grosz his collection was donatedto the Mueseum in Berlin, which sounds like a good deal, but everyone I've ever spoken to even Germans claim its a BLACK WHOLE and you'll never be allowed in to take a look, I hope they are wrong. Mayne over time it will change. The Ed Ferko collection was put up for sale and somehow, the UT D snatched it up, thank God! but they did not get Grosz's