SO FEW & SO MANY COLLECTOR'S PORTFOLIO
With over FIFTY original autographs, this monumental Collector's Portfolio commemorates the RAF during WW2, including specially commissioned artwork!
So Few - A folio dedicated to all who flew in combat during the Battle of Britain, July – October 1940
So Many - A folio dedicated to all who served with RAF Bomber Command during WWII, 1939 – 1945
Published in 1990 & 1995 respectively, these first edition hardbacks are both numbered 182 of just 401 copies ever produced.
No. 1 was presented to Her Majesty The Queen and No. 401 to The Queen Mother.
Issued in lavish presentation boxes and bound in original Chieftain goatskins dyed the exact shade of RAF wool-barathea wartime uniform fabric. The gold-tipped pages are filled with photographs, profile silhouettes, personal reminiscences and biographies of some of the most prominent pilots and aircrew to serve with the RAF during the Second World War.
These superbly produced books are printed on thick paper, with each portrait accompanied by a biography of the subject, together with photographs of memorabilia and facsimiles of letters.
But that’s not all…
To create a completely unique and one of a kind set, we’ve commissioned two original pencil drawings by world renowned aviation artist Richard Taylor!
Air Chief Marshal HUGH DOWDING - Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain
Marshal of the RAF Sir ARTHUR HARRIS - Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief for RAF Bomber Command during WW2
Each drawing is conservation matted to include their original autographs, with the overall mount designed specifically to fit perfectly inside the Collector's presentation box which accompanies each volume.
A lavish and worthy tribute to the RAF’s airmen of World War Two - Only ONE set available!
The full list of signatures reads:
So Few
- Air Chief Marshal Sir HUGH DOWDING GCB, GCVO, CMG
- Wing Commander Paddy Barthropp DFC AFC
- Wing Commander Roland 'Bee' Beamont CBE DSO* DFC* DL
- Squadron Leader Ben Bennions DFC
- Air Vice-Marshal Harold Bird-Wilson CBE DSO DFC* AFC*
- Air Commodore Peter Brothers CBE DSO DFC*
- Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling KCB CBE DSO DFC* AE
- Group Captain Dennis David CBE DFC* AFC
- Air Commodore Alan Deere DSO OBE DFC*
- Squadron Leader Gandi Drobinski DFC
- Flight Lieutenant Howard Duart
- Air Chief Marshal Christopher Foxley-Norris GCB DSO OBE
- Group Captain Tom Gleave CBE
- Wing Commander Pat Hancock DFC
- Squadron Leader Charlton Haw DFC DFM
- Commander Ronnie Hay
- Group Captain Brian Kingcome DSO DFC*
- Colonel Henry Lafont
- Air Commodore Donald MacDonell CB DFC
- Squadron Leader Miroslav Jan Mansfeld DSO DFC AFC
- Wing Commander Geoffrey Page DSO OBE DFC*
- Wing Commander Peter Parrot DFC* AFC
- Group Captain Desmond Sheen DFC*
- Wing Commander Hiram Smith DFC
- Wing Commander Jas Storrar DFC* AFC AE
- Wing Commander George 'Grumpy' Unwin DSO DFM*
So Many
- Marshal of the RAF Sir Arthur T. Harris BT, GCB OBE DD
- Warrant Officer Godfrey Avery
- Marshal of the RAF Sir Michael Beetham GCB CBE DFC AFC FRAeS
- Warrant Officer Don Board
- Warrant Officer George W. 'Danny' Boon
- Squadron Leader Lewis Brandon DSO DFC*
- Air Marshal Sir Ivor Broom KCB CBE DSO DFC AFC
- Air Commodore Wilf Burnett DSO, OBE, DFC, AFC
- Squadron Leader Bernard 'Bob' Culpin DSO DFC
- Squadron Leader Robert G. Dale DSO DFC
- Flying Officer George Dove CGM DFM
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Elliott
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Gillett DFC
- Squadron Leader Mac Hamilton DFC
- Group Captain Peter W. Johnson DSO OBE DFC AFC
- Flight Lieutenant George Kent DFC DFM
- Group Captain Hamish Mahaddie DSO DFC AFC* FRAeS
- Group Captain Roy D. Max DSO DFC
- Flight Lieutenant Murray Peden
- Warrant Officer Dennis J. Salt
- Flight Lieutenant Lyndon Sims
- Wing Commander Peter H. Swan DSO DFC*
- Squadron Leader John C. Turnbull CM, DFC, BSP
- Squadron Leader Jim V. Verran DFC* MiD
- Warrant Officer Joseph V. Williams
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