All I Want for Christmas Is a Shiny Martin-Baker Mk.2 Fully Automatic Ejection Seat

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Art historian nicholas brawer, who opened his Manhattan gallery about a year ago, says of his "industrial art" collection, "I do all the [refurbishing] work myself with a group of ex-Royal Air Force engineers in England, so you could literally stick that ejection seat back into the Canberra [British bomber] and, with a new cartridge in the gun, use it again." The collection focuses on military hardware, but includes brass luggage racks from British train carriages, vintage cocktail shakers, miniature mahogany yachts, and three-foot-long binoculars from a Japanese battle ship. Among his aviation artifacts, Brawer could claim the "table formed from the twin horizontal stabilizers of an ex-RAF English Electric supersonic interceptor ca. 1959-62" to be his favorite. "I was so excited when I found that shot of the Lightning showing the horizontal stabilizers to perfection," he says.