An expensive photo of a captured airplane on its back

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Originally Posted by edwest

There is one buyer on ebay.de that calls himself fi156storch who buys every Storch photo that appears, or at least bids on it. I have seen him bid on photos that were little more than tiny black silhouettes against the sky. [...]

Then there is the mysterious sudek13. Perhaps he is a rich man or a number of individuals. No one knows. Apparently, he/they have whatever money it takes to get what they want.

Dear Ed,

at first I have to thank for your "photo link list" every day, I safe time
and find some photos I would never see without your work!

Now I want to write something which may be interesting for you.
The ebay member **156****** is buying for another collector as I know.
I think he has the order to buy everything which looks like a Storch.
So he is buying everything also photos with black silhouettes.

Then we have *****13. He is a very rich man with some people who work
for him. It doesn't matter to spend 1 or 2 million of Eur or USD at ebay
for him every year. I'm still wondering why nobody knows who is *****13
really. Lots of people do business with him or sell their photos at ebay.
As I found out he is one or the "one and only" man behind the "Archive
of modern conflict" in London. And now you can see some of his photos
published in future, I'm really sure. The first example is "Jagdflieger-
verbände 9/I". You know that his first interests were photos of Bf 109...
But it's a fact that *****13 needs some experts who tell him what is
a "must have" so he place his great bids. That's it.