Nazi Plane Tailfin

[scorpion89]

I appreciate everyones input, and I know it's subjective but no one has addressed my original question when I started this thread. Assuming it's genuine, what's it worth?

Well on the open market somewhere between $75-250 depending on who want to purchase it. May I make a suggestion you try and make a wall mount with it and a photo of your Uncle

 

[p51]

Well on the open market somewhere between $75-250 depending on who want to purchase it. May I make a suggestion you try and make a wall mount with it and a photo of your Uncle

Sorry, but if you're able to nail this down as authentic, $250 would be at the low end. I've seen a few of these sell at shows over the years, and someone getting something like this for less than a hundred bucks would consider it quite the steal.
I'm no expert but I know for sure I've seen confirmed sections like this sell for several hundred bucks at military shows.

 

[scorpion89]

Sorry, but if you're able to nail this down as authentic, $250 would be at the low end. I've seen a few of these sell at shows over the years, and someone getting something like this for less than a hundred bucks would consider it quite the steal.
I'm no expert but I know for sure I've seen confirmed sections like this sell for several hundred bucks at military shows.

Yes I agree with you if they had proof IE photo's of the aircraft before and after the part was removed, mot of the one's that I have scene at shows do have the photographic proof and yes $250 would be a low end.

 

[alsendk]

Here is a tail fin from a shot down german plane over german soil near Itzehoe. Picture taken by my dad, who was with the danish brigade there, working as a minesweeper.

Triple magnifying the picture, makes the bullet holes in the Svastika cross look quite round, and with painting around the holes being ripped off...quite different to the square holes in the pic, starting this thread, but who know for sure

 

[carleton]

Your fin is from an ME109.. it is right in every way. except for the "bullet holes" Do you want to sell it?

 

[carleton]

I was going through a closet and came upon this piece of Tailfin section my uncle gave me as a child that he brought back from the war. Does anyone know what it's worth?

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Bolero]

With some decent Provenance & History data to go along with it.... I would say it's worth at least $1000.00 to a Collector of such WWII items, maybe even more if Presented properly...

 

[Otter]

Keep it, as a family heirloom it is priceless !

 

[Ralph_Phillips]

Brushed markings might have been common back then. I've seen a couple of WW2 photos of Luftwaffe mechanics painting markings with a brush.

 

[AdeeC]

Brushed markings might have been common back then. I've seen a couple of WW2 photos of Luftwaffe mechanics painting markings with a brush.

Seen that too. Most of the camouflage was also hand painted and not too good at later stages of the war. A can of paint, brush and stencil was about the most sophisticated decorating equipment available at later stages of the war when a lot of improvisation and short cuts were used due to bombed out factories and hasty dispersed manufacturing. Spraying equipment that used precious fuel and energy was an unnecessary or absent luxury for a repair and maintenance unit as well.

 

[Smithy]

Seen that too. Most of the camouflage was also hand painted and not too good at later stages of the war. A can of paint, brush and stencil was about the most sophisticated decorating equipment available at later stages of the war when a lot of improvisation and short cuts were used due to bombed out factories and hasty dispersed manufacturing. Spraying equipment that used precious fuel and energy was an unnecessary or absent luxury for a repair and maintenance unit as well.

It's perhaps an exaggeration to say that most camouflage of late war Luftwaffe aircraft was hand painted. Most late war airframes were still being delivered to frontline units with spray applied mottling, even very late Ta-152s, etc. The examples of brush (or sponge) applied camouflage in theatre were usually with some extremely frontline units who had received RLM directives regarding colour and marking changes. Whilst you make do with what you have, brush painting camouflage (as opposed to spray applied camo) increases drag on the airframe, and that's one of the reasons why some units (especially fighter units) which were in theatre were exceedingly slow to upgrade to (and in some cases ignored) RLM issued directives on camouflage changes.

Whilst brush and sponge applied camouflage was seen on late war Luftwaffe aircraft it can't be said to be more common than spray applied camouflage finishes.

 

[carleton]

If it was at a dealer he will ask about $1,500 $2,000. Complete ME-109 tail sections are in the range of $3,500. A lot depends on condition and other factors, but that’s what I have seen.
It is 100% from a WWII German 109. The square holes, are more than likely post war “bullet holes”.

 

[Stanley Doble]

Re camouflage and repaints. I have it from an old book about the VW Kubelwagen that the army furnished paint in the form of bricks of pigment, red green and possibly other colors, that were to be dissolved in gasoline to make paint. This paint was used to make camouflage paint jobs in the field. Color scheme and pattern depending where you were and what the local terrain and foliage looked like.