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Thurman “Jack” Naylor’s photography collection is estimated to have brought in around USD 2m in Guernsey’s auction, according to Arlan Ettinger, Guernsey’s founder. Naylor said the money from the auction will go towards his 14 grandchildren’s college education.
“I am pushing 90 now and this collection is really big. My children are not interested in it, so I decided to sell it and support my grandchildren’s education,” Naylor said.
“It was lots of fun growing up around the collection. That’s where I learned about geography and history,” Naylor’s daughter, Jeanne Mahoney said. “But it’s not his cameras that I adore. It’s really his kind heart. He really used this collection as a way to educate and meet people.”
Naylor, who invented the automotive thermostat and was the former CEO of the Thomson International Corporation, started his collection after serving as a fighter pilot in World War II. Naylor’s collection consisted of over 30,000 items including: antique cameras; 165 KGB, CIA, FBI, East German Stasi, and British OSS spy cameras; photographs by Edward Curtis, Margaret Bourke-White, and ”Doc” Edgerton; and Daguerreian cameras and more than one thousand daguerreotypes.
“I have been trying to sell it for the past two years so it will be a relief to auction off the collection,” Naylor said.
The most expensive item sold was the spy camera collection, which is still being bid on, according to Ettinger. Naylor meticulously sought out each item from KGB agents and travels to Russia and China.
Naylor’s entire collection was originally estimated to be worth USD 4m. “Naylor had collected many beautiful cameras that were not particularly valuable and also many of the items Naylor has were not at the auction. Those will be sold next year in an auction or a sale,” Ettinger said.
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