Autographs of Jeffrey Quill

Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, OBE, AFC, FRAeS (1 February 1913 – 20 February 1996) was a British test pilot who served on secondment with the Royal Air Force and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. He was also the second man to fly the Supermarine Spitfire after Vickers Aviation's chief test pilot, Joseph "Mutt" Summers. After succeeding Summers as Vickers' chief test pilot, Quill test-flew every mark of Spitfire. Quill's work on the aircraft aided its development from a promising but untried prototype to become, with the Hawker Hurricane, an instrument of the Royal Air Force's victory in the Battle of Britain. The Spitfire later played a leading role in gaining Allied air superiority over Europe. Quill later wrote two books about the Spitfire. More about Jeffrey Quill

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Current items with a signature of Jeffrey Quill

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thumbnailWW2 RAF ace & test pilot Jeffrey Quill signed letter INTERESTING CONTENT!£45.00logo
thumbnailWW2 RAF cover signed by the 2nd man to ever fly the Spitfire Jeffrey Quill£40.00logo
Quill was born at Littlehampton, Sussex, the youngest of the five children of Arthur Maxwell Quill and Emily Molesworth Kindersley. He was educated at Lancing College, which overlooked Shoreham aerodrome, at that time a small grass field with old hangars and a wooden hut for a flying club. While at Lancing, Quill became Captain of Gibbs House (1930) and Prefect (1931). He played in the Cricket XI (1930–31); Football XI (1929–30); and was Sergeant in the Officers' Training Corps, Cert. A. Long before he left school in 1931, the nearby aerial activity had prompted Quill to seek a non-commissioned career in the Royal Air Force. While still a pupil at Lancing, he attended the famous annual RAF displays at Hendon. Two years later he participated in the event.

At the age of 18, Quill was accepted into the Royal Air Force as an acting pilot officer. He learned to fly on Avro Tutor biplanes at No. 3 Flying Training School at Grantham, and went solo after the short time of 5 hours 20 minutes (9 hours being regarded as the norm). He graduated to Siskin IIIA advanced trainers, and his flying ability was assessed as exceptional. In September 1932 he joined No. 17 Squadron RAF at Upavon, where he began flying Bristol Bulldog fighters. While with 17 Squadron he took part in the Royal Air Force display at Hendon in June 1933, demonstrating low flying in a mock bombing attack. He flew as often as possible to familiarise himself with the aeroplane, practising aerobatics and flying in cloud. The squadron also carried out service trials of new fighters in support of the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, with Quill taking part in the squadron's evaluation of the Armstrong Whitworth A.W.16. He was well aware of the dangers of flying and later wrote: Read even more about Jeffrey Quill at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of Jeffrey Quill

In total, we tracked 94 items since 01/09/2012. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.

The most expensive item with a signature of Jeffrey Quill (Book. Spitfire. A Test Pilot's Story. Jeffrey Quill. Signed. RAF Fighter Pilot.) was sold in July 2020 for £150.00 while the cheapest item (JEFFREY QUILL AUTOGRAPHED FLOWN RAF TP10 FDC HAND SIGNED) found a new owner for £0.99 in October 2017. The month with the most items sold (4) was December 2012 with an average selling price of £12.47 for an autographed item of Jeffrey Quill. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2019 with £56.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £2.20 was May 2023. In average, an autographed item from Jeffrey Quill is worth £10.63.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Jeffrey Quill were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

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thumbnail RAF FIRST DAY COVER RAF SIGNED BY JEFFREY QUILL SIGNED OWN COVER TEST PILOT£4.00logo
thumbnail1986 JEFFREY QUILL SIGNED 50th ANNIVERSARY SPITFIRE FLOWN COVER£6.40logo
thumbnail1991 RAF CLASSIC AIRCRAFT COVER PERSONALLY SIGNED BY FO JEFFREY QUILL. £5.60logo
thumbnailGB 1976 Cover Signed by Spitfire Test Pilot Jeffrey Quill and 1st Sqdn Cozens£10.00logo
thumbnailJeffrey Quill Spitfire WW2 pencil signed Battle of Britain£27.55logo
thumbnailRAF - BATTLE OF BRITAIN FDC PERSONALLY SIGNED BY JEFFREY QUILL. £7.50logo
thumbnailRAF HA1 AIR COMMODORE H.I COZENS & JEFFREY QUILL SIGNED HISTORIC AVIATORS COVER£2.20logo
thumbnailRAF SIGNED FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED JEFFREY QUILL AFC OWN COVER£9.70logo
thumbnailSpitfire fdc signed by Jeffrey Quill, Spitfire Test Pilot.£13.76logo
thumbnailSpitfire Test Pilot JEFFREY QUILL & AC HENRY COZENS Signed RJ Mitchell RAF Cover£12.99logo