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Enamel Advertising Sign “1st. Sunday Pictorial” featuring an image of a 1st. Class carriage door. v.g.c. and with very good colour and shine. In a wooden frame. 43.3x16.2in. o/all. |
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Caledonian Rly. large 3 aspect Handlamp with a skirt. Top and body both stamped with matching “Caledonian 1686”. Complete with vessel, rape oil burner, reflector and all glasses. Restored & v.g.c. Rare to find a Caley with matching numbers. |
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Great Eastern Rly. small cast iron Crossing Numberplate “19”. These are in the same octagonal form as the company’s bridge plates and are difficult to find. Face restored only. 6x3.75in. |
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Rectangular cast iron Bridge Builders Plate “Patent Shaft & Axletree Co. Ld. Engineers Wednesbury 1897”. Restored a while ago. 11.3x7.8in. |
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Furness Railway Co. cast brass Signal Box Lever Collar. Clearly face marked “F.R.C. 108”. Makes a superb paperweight! |
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135 |
Seven different LNER Guards / Police Whistles in nickel, plastic and horn. All are nicely marked “LNER” or “L&NER” and in v.g.c. (7). |
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A printed Sheet of Loco Numbers titled “Willesden Power Allocation” and listing 108 steam and 19 diesel locos. Pinned into a wooden frame 16.25x13.5in. o/all. Recovered from the shed forman’s office and very evocative. |
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LNER 3 aspect Handlamp. The body has a brass plate “London & North Eastern Railway Rotherham Pass”. Complete with vessel, burner, reflector and all glasses. Unrestored. From the former GCR Rotherham & Masboro station. |
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Great Northern Railway copper Station Platform Lamp Top bearing an original but faded “Bottesford” white glass name tablet. The lamp is clearly stamped “GNR” twice and is complete with its original mounting frog and all glazing. v.g.c. Bottesford, on the Nottingham - Grantham Line opened in 1850. |
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Great Eastern Railway fully titled enamel Trespass Notice. Some excellent restoration work to enamel losses to present a fine looking sign. An early and very scarce notice as the vast majority were replaced with cast iron examples. On a wooden backing frame. 33.5x21.6in. |
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Cast iron Locomotive Smokebox Numberplate “61189” as carried by LNER ‘B1’ Class 4-6-0 named “Sir William Gray”. The loco was built by the Vulcan Foundry in 1947. Always a Yorkshire West Riding engine it was w/d from York in 5/67 and cut up at Draper’s Hull in 12/67. “SWG” was a director of the LNER who ‘unveiled’ his nameplate at Stockton in Dec. 1947. The plate is in fine condition restored some years ago. See next lot. |
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BR printed aluminium Station Sign “Crewe” with flanges to two long edges. Good ex-station condition. 37in. long. |
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Oval cast brass Locomotive ‘9x5’ Works Numberplate “London & North Eastern Railway 61189 Vulcan Foundry Co. Ltd. 1947” as carried by ‘B1’ “Sir William Gray”. Face restored only. See previous lot. |
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Cast iron Locomotive Shedplate “10A” (Springs Branch then Carnforth). Thin characters example. Face restored only. |
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“The Royal Automobile Club” double sided enamel Sign. A nice early sign by the Falkirk Iron Co. Some very well executed restoration to three areas otherwise edge chipping only. Very good colour and shine. 25x20in. |
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Pair of leather Cash Bags with brass plates “B.R. Wages Castle Bytham” and “B.R. Salaries South Witham”. Former MR stations on the Wymondham Jct - Bourne Route mostly run over M&GNJR metals. The stations closed in 1959 along with the M&GN system. (2). |
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Oval cast aluminium Locomotive Builders Plate “Brush Traction England No. 284 1961” as carried by BR Type 2 AIA-AIA Diesel Electric Loco No. D5683 into Traffic at Darnall. Became Class 31 No. 31255. Face painted but with fine ex-loco back stamped “31255”. 9.6x5.6in. |
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LNWR 3 Gallon metal Oil Can with brass plate “L&NWR Chg. Dept. Bucknell”. The can is also stamped “LNWR 3 Gall. Station Use”. v.g.c. Unrestored. 17in. tall. Bucknell is a station on the Central Wales Line. |
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“G.N. Hotel Leeds” silver plated half pint Tankard. Nicely face marked with the title in a belted garter. This hotel stood next door to Leeds Central station and the building still exists although the station was ultimately obliterated after closure in 1967. |
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LNER wooden balloon cased Mantle Clock. The original dial lettered “L.N.E.R 889”. Working order complete with pendulum & key. Records show that the clock was located in the G.E. Liverpool Street Hotel, Abercorn Rooms, Cambridge Room. |
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Pair of Great Eastern Rly. “GER” monogrammed cast iron Platform Seat Ends. Both back rail support sections have very good service repairs to fractures. Wooden runners are fixed to the bases. Restored. |
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Oval chromed cast brass Locomotive Builders Plate “F.C. Hibberd & Co. Ltd. London NW10 Planet Loco No. 3893”. Ex loco condition 12x7.5in. together with a cast brass chassis plate “F.C.Hibberd & Co. Ltd. Chassis No. 2217 made in England”. Ex-loco 4.75x1.3in. As carried by Standard Gauge 4WDM, New via Thomas Hill to Dorman Long at their Newport Works at Middlesbrough. Still at their Dock St. foundry in 1970 but subsequently scrapped. |
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Midland Rly. Signal Box ‘Stick’ Telephone, complete with Ericsson handset, wooden electrical box and brass support column. v.g.c. and nicely presented on a wooden stand. 19in. tall. |
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Pair of official L&YR hallmarked silver Presentation Spoons. Each bears the enamelled full company title, coat of arms and Victorian crown. One is back engraved “Engineers”, the other “Engineers Fog”. v.g.c. and very scarce. |
