Aviation Estate Sale

[isla1]

My father passed away and everythimg must go. Cheap prices! Items include: WWI Aviation/ Military Collectables, WWI Lozenge Fabric, Prussian Collectibles, Aviation Books and Manuals and much more. St. Louis Mo. contact #314-225-9515 ask for Manfred.

[tcrean7828]

Originally Posted by isla1

My father passed away and everythimg must go. Cheap prices! Items include: WWI Aviation/ Military Collectables, WWI Lozenge Fabric, Prussian Collectibles, Aviation Books and Manuals and much more. St. Louis Mo. contact #314-225-9515 ask for Manfred.

My condolences for your loss.

tcrean7828

tom

[isla1]

Thanks for the condolences Tom. My son Manfred now has his father's collection. His father spent a lifetime reading and collecting anything he could get his hands on about WWI Aviation. He named our son after the Red Baron! His dream was to build a replica of the Baron's red triplane and fly it for fun and maybe in Airshows. This really is a wonderful website for WWI aviation history. Can You recommend anywhere else that we might let people know that this collection is available? Thanks again, Isla

[Laserlloyd]

Hi Isla:

Sorry for your loss, Collections sometime have a lot of meaning behind them and parting with it is sometime hard to do. I know that I would want mine to go to the right person and I feel that we have a lot of good people here on the Aerodrome that would treat it with respect and honor.

A listing of what was in the collection is a start and you can group items together as a bundle like all the MvR book as one lot. Just a suggestion.
You can them in the classified section.

I did send you a PM so if you have time to respond I would be greatfull.

Thanks..

Lloyd...

[rexee]

May I suggest contacting aviation museums that have World War 1 exhibits and possibly donating items of relevance to various collections.Some things might have great educational value, especially to younger generations
Just a thought

[Jim]

In part it will depend on what is in the collection and big it is.

There are dealers who will be happy to buy it but the amount you would get that way will be a very small fraction of whatever its value may be.

If there is anything of major historical importance then please consider talking with the major museums such as the Air and Space Museum in Washington or the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. There are others that are not as big in the U.S., and there are others of equal size and importance in other countries. However you will need to keep in mind that reputable museums will only be interested in objects of real historical significance since every object they accept will have to be cared for which costs them money and they all have tight budgets.

If there are good collections of rare books - not ones that were printed in the past couple of decades - or collections of original photos or documents then there are a number of libraries that are interested in such collections and make them available to the general public. Some of these are attached to the big museums, but there are also others that are attached to major universities.

If you wish to sell things, the best place to get the most money for things is Ebay. If you have a very large amount of material you can group things of lesser value to make it go faster. Ebay will get you the market value for your things in 90 percent of the cases, or it will get you above market value or below market value in a small percent of the cases but that evens out when selling many things. You can let people here know when you put things up for sale on Ebay so they will be sure to look at them if they are interested. The important thing there is to have several good quality photos and to start your bidding at a very low price to generate bidding interest. Keep in mind that most serious bidding usually comes in the last hour or even the last seconds of an auction.

Selling privately to an individual is a crap shoot - though most of the time you will not get as much as you would if you went to Ebay auctions.

[isla1]

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions and condolences. Sincerely, Isla