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137: Getting ‘Beach City Baby’ Ready to Fly Again – C-53 Skytrooper Tour

136: Selling History? How WWII Signatures Became a Cash Grab

I promise this is the last video on autographs and signatures, but I recently bought a mostly lovely print of Frank Wootton’s Typhoon Squadron, which had had all the signatures cut out of it. This led me down a rabbit hole of looking at the commoditisation of these signatures and autographs, where the very rarest are now sliced out and added to both new and…

135: Erasing History Part 2: Is A Signature Historic?

Dr Philip W. Blood, author of ‘Birds of Prey’, joins us in this follow-up to our recent episode where I erased the noted Luftwaffe ace, Gunther Rall, signature, off of a print by Robert Taylor. Phil and I delve into the truth about Luftwaffe complicity in the crimes of the Nazis during the Second World War and discuss the uncomfortable relationship with the regard to…