Original German aircraft recognition book...

Just happened to stumble across this!... This one is a "keeper", I think!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...sPageName=WDVW

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[Matt Witt]

Ach du Lieber! Die Kostet too grosse ist! $285.00!! Try this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6534066498

Identical book and the current bid is only $30.00! Only a day and a half left though! This is a very good price for this book. Copies come around two or three times a year. $285.00 is way too high, but you are right, it is a keeper if you can get it at a reasonable price.

Matt

Ach du Lieber! Die Kostet too grosse ist! $285.00!! Try this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6534066498

Identical book and the current bid is only $30.00! Only a day and a half left though! This is a very good price for this book. Copies come around two or three times a year. $285.00 is way too high, but you are right, it is a keeper if you can get it at a reasonable price.

Matt

Apologies Matt, mein Freund... When I first posted this thread I believe it was going for far less. Nice example, though! Best Regards!

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[Jim Bruton]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13965&item=6534627 256&rd=1

[Dave_Watts]

Hi Jim,

It's not a Bamberg.

As the gent lists;

"Armee kompass III ,Pfad-finder,C.Plath,Hamburg"

It is an early compass ideal for an early plane project. It is the real deal, that is for sure!

Ideally you would want an aluminum Bamberg for a Dr.I project. As you can see this compass is brass/bronze and which was the case for the early units. It may be possible that even early aircraft compasses were aluminum as well as the later units, and for a Zeppelin it was acceptable to use what would normally be classified as a "ships" compass.

I wouldn't be ashamed to have this in my project. It can stand as a great piece all by itself anyway, so it wouldn't be a bad investment or as a trading piece. Buy it find a Zeppelin nut and tell him to find an aircraft compass and you'll trade him. Zepp compasses have to be scarce as can be. Aircraft compasses in comparison would be a dime a dozen.

Happy hunting,
Best,
Dave W.

[joegertler]

Originally Posted by Dave_Watts

Aircraft compasses in comparison would be a dime a dozen. Dave W.

Holy Smokes, Dave! I'll pay you DOUBLE-twenty cents a dozen...
One of the Bamberg compasses just sold at auction, last month for over $4,000. (and NO- I Don't have any to sell, so I'm not puffing up the price..)
In my experience the two hardest items to find are the anenometer-type airspeeds and the compasses, especially a compass with all the brackets & fittings. But you are right (of course) that the one on Ebay would be just fine in most replicas-pretty good in fact. And I agree that you might trade it for something special from a Zeppelin collector, even though that particular one has been really beat up. It is well worth the asking price, though. It is a rare item. As a budgetary solution for many replica builders, we used to buy nice marine compasses from Japan, and fabricate a couple of mounting brackets from some 1/8" 6061 aluminum, and paint them flat black. But that supplier, disappeared-even before the days of the Internet. I think that Plath makes a modern marine compass-with the flat glass that is very close to the original WWI German size, that usually runs under $100 on Ebay. They run on Ebay fairly often. I just checked and don't see any today. But it is the larger version of this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=37967&item=7326121 006&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Joe, mein Freund, I haven't heard from you in ages!... How have you been? I'll have to send you a PM. Good to see you.


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[BloodReignAngelofDeath]

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