Does Anyone Here Collect Antique Wooden Propellers?

[dbahn]

I do and started about almost 50 years ago, owning around 100 of them over the years but now down to about 20 rare WW1 and pre-WW1 era props in original condition. Years ago on the advice from the propulsion curator at the National Air and Space Museum I created a web site (woodenpropeller.com) which I still maintain. At age 76 I'm looking at the long term continuation of the site (there's a lot of information on it and its associated forum), so if anyone is interested in taking over please let me know.

It certainly has been a fun and rewarding hobby and I still admire the gracefulness and the workmanship on the old propellers and their decals, some of which are hanging on my walls.

 

[Busflyer]

Don’t have the knowledge to run a website but I’ve been wanting to find some propellers from this area. It seems there’s a lot of reproductions which I’m not interested in. (I admit I haven’t looked very hard yet but now I finally have a place to display them)