Petrol Globe SUPER SHELL. Light blue background with the word 'Super' in dark blue and the word 'Shell' in red. Excellent condition, mounted on a wooden stand and wired with a bulb although the cable has been removed to comply with safety regulations.
|
Advertising enamel Sign, "Wills' Star Cigarettes'' on one side, "Wills's Wild Woodbine Cigarettes" the other side. Red and black lettering on a white ground both sides. 19 1/2" x 12", in good overall condition but the wall mounting flange has been flattened out.
|
Small Folding Chair, similar to a deck chair, containing an Advertising enamel Sign as the seatback 'Smoke Piedmont The Cigarette Of Quality', white lettering on a dark blue ground. Extremely good condition throughout and certainly a novelty.
|
Advertising enamel Sign 'Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen', 20" x 9 1/2". Semi pictorial with an image of the very pen diagonally across the centre. White lettering on red/orange ground with yellow border. In very good condition with just a few small chips.
|
Advertising enamel Sign 'Blue Cross Tea', measuring 44" x 15". Good colour and shine but there are some areas of restoration.
|
Advertising enamel Sign 'Sunny Island Ceylon Tea - Try It'. Measuring 26 1/2" x 54", it is semi pictorial with an oval inset showing a small tropical island with sailing boat, also the makers name Chromo Wolverhampton. Some areas of restoration, particularly around the main text but the image seems to be restoration free.
|
Advertising enamel Sign, "Colman's Mustard With Our Prime Beef, Mutton etc - and enjoy them more". Some edge restoration. Measures 22" x 14".
|
Advertising enamel Sign, "Selo Films - The Power Behind the Lens". Double sided hanging sign. Measures 17" x 23". Good colour and shine with minor chipping.
|
Advertising enamel Sign 'Jacob's Biscuits'. White lettering on blue ground. Minor chipping around bolt holes. This originated from a local shop in Wigan where it adorned a Jacob's Biscuits display cabinet.
|
Advertising enamel Sign 'Hudson's Soap - In Packets - In Dozens - All Our Lamp Oil At Lowest Price - All Our Goods Are Reliable'. Yellow top half with red lettering on white and dark blue lower half with white lettering, 24" x 15". Excellent condition with minor, well executed restoration.
|
Advertising enamel Sign 'Van Houtens Cocoa - Best & Goes Farthest', 15" x 6". White lettering on brown ground with pictorial image of two tins on the right side. Some expert restoration to top otherwise extremely good.
|
Advertising enamel Sign 'Cadbury's Cocoa Is Absolutely Pure'. White lettering on maroon ground. Minor defects with expert restoration to left-hand side. Measures 17 1/2" x 6 1/2".
|
Advertising enamel Sign 'Borax Starch Glaze - Improves All Starch - You Cannot Glaze Without It - In Penny Packets Everywhere'. Excellent, pictorial white on dark blue showing the Washerwoman with her shiny white laundry and the image from the packet. Good condition with a few areas of expert restoration, 15" x 10".
|
Advertising enamel Sign 'Rowntree's Chocolate'. This is the scarce 'fancy lettering' example, white on dark blue, 13 3/4"x 10 3/4". Some damage around the periphery but good overall.
|
Advertising enamel Sign 'Mazawattee Tea - Recalls The Delicious Teas Of 30 Years Ago'. White lettering on dark blue ground with a lower panel, black lettering on a yellow ground, 12" x12". Good overall condition, not common.
|
Advertising enamel Sign 'Adkin & Son Nut Brown Tobacco London'. Black on white with dome top, 14" x 10". Good overall condition.
|
Advertising tinplate Sign 'Lyon's Swiss Rolls - The Roll Of Fame With A Famous Name - 1/8 each', 12" x 12". Mid blue ground with multicoloured text and a chef displaying the famous Roll. Few scratches but nice overall.
|
Advertising enamel Sign 'Buy Hudsons Soap', strip style with yellow on blue pointing hand each end and title in white. Measures 20" x 3" and is in very good condition.
|
Advertising enamel Sign 'Geo Payne's GP Tea'. Basically in the shape of the tea packet with black lettering on a white ground with the red tie bow and seal, 17 1/2" x 33". Some edge damage doesn't' detract.
|
Single Line alloy Key Token HARLECH - BARMOUTH SOUTH. Ex Cambrian Railway section between Dovey Junction and Pwlhelli.
|
Doorplate BR(Sc) LADIES WAITING ROOM, F/F, 18" x 6". Excellent colour and shine, just a few very minor defects.
|
Wagon Plate 'Leeds Forge Co Ltd 1928 Builders'. C/I measuring 7 1/4" x 4 1/2". Face restored, rear original with a clear pattern number 'P172' stamped within. Came from the Sittingbourne area of Kent. Although the company manufactured a couple of electric locos for use at the Sittingbourne Cement Works in 1928, it is thought that this is a wagon plate.
|
Shedplate 82G, Templecombe from February 1958 until October 1963.
|
GWR C/I Cabside Numberplate 6102. Ex GWR 2-6-2 Prairie Tank, built Swindon May 1931. Allocations include Old Oak, Bristol Bath Road, Ebbw Junction and Severn Tunnel Junction. Withdrawn on 17/8/59. Cut up at Swindon during week ending 19/12/59. Face restored, rear original.
|
Nameplate TROJAN. Ex NBL Type 4 B-B Class 43 Warship Hydraulic number D856. Built at the North British Locomotive Works in November 1961 under works number 27985 and allocated new to Plymouth Laira for working the West of England Expresses to and from Paddington. Withdrawn May 1971 and cut up in January 1972 at BREL Swindon. Face restored with a couple of small holes have been filled in the letters , these were known to have been used to mount the plate in one of the Victoria Station Restaurants in the USA , traces of blue paint around the edge
|
LNER Horsebox Pot Lamp carrying an oval brass LNE plate and also an oval brass 'G. Polkey Manufacturers Birmingham' plate. Excellent condition throughout and complete with bottom glass globe.
|
South African Railways single language brass Tender plate 'South African Railways 2037 LP' (the LP being hand engraved) also cast into the back of the plate is 54S 1566. Ex Class 14CRM 4-8-2 Locomotive built by the American Locomotive Montreal Works, 1921. Measures 9" x 6", ex loco condition.
|
GWR colour-tinted Victorian carriage panel 'Cheltenham Pittville Gardens'. by the Photochrom Company. Issued around 1895 in a titled mount. VGC. In original style frame & glazed.
|
Great Eastern Railway Cast Iron "Beware of Trains" sign, in original condition.
|
Brass Worksplate KITSON 1909. Believed to be ex Queensland Government Railways with running number 499. The back of the plate is stamped '499' and 'QG 4618'. Oval, engraved brass measuring approximately 10" x 6 1/4".
|
A pair of Midland Railway mahogany cased Pegging Block Instruments, one having the larger back-box. Both have damage to the front dials but are basically in ex signal box condition.
|
BR(E) Running-in-Board HORNSEY. In two separate but manageable sections, 24" x 67" and 24" x 56". Good condition overall. Together with the matching Signal box Diagram in a frame 'HORNSEY'. Ex GNR location on the East Coast main line between Harringay and Wood Green. Also, a framed Signal box Diagram WIGSTON SOUTH JUNCTION, 60" x 24". Wigston South Junction signal box was located just north of the former Wigston Magna station and was opened in 1900.
|
Totem, BR(W) NEWTON ABBOT, F/F. Ex GWR station between Exeter and Plymouth, opened by the South Devon Railway on 30th December 1846 as Newton. Excellent condition with deep colour and shine, with the exception of an area of repair right hand end.
|
South African Industrial Locomotive Nameplate ISIBUTU. Ex Bagnall 2' Gauge 4-4-0T number 2374 built 1929 for use at the Tongaat Sugar Mills. There were 14 similar locos in use at Tongaat and it is well known that boilers and other parts were frequently swapped around. It is known that ISIBUTU nameplate found its way to the UK and was fitted to Bagnall 2820, originally named EGOLOMI. The plate measures 23 1/2" x 4 3/4" and is face polished.
|
Great Western Railway enamel Sign 'GWR to Ireland by the new Fishguard Route - Shortest Sea Passage 23/4 Hours - Magnificent Turbine Steamers 221/2 Knots', 36" x 50". In fair condition.
|
Nameplate 'Bristol Evening Post', cast aluminium type. Ex Inter City 125 Locomotive number 43150, named at Bristol Temple Meads Station on 4th October 1988 by Cllr Derek Tedder, Lord Mayor of Bristol. The naming was to celebrate the twinning of local Bristol evening newspaper with BR. Removed in approx 1991 when replaced with the new reflective, brushed alloy type.
|
Great Central Railway China 9 inch diameter Tea plate from a Directors Saloon in excellent condition, base marked Copeland's china England.
|
Oil Painting of GWR Barnum 2-4-0 Locomotive departing Market Drayton in 1927 by Paul Twine (1930 - 2000). Framed & Glazed.
|
Great Eastern Railway mahogany framed mirror 16 1/4" x 18 1/4" The Centre of the mirror is etched with GER and traces of the original gold leaf can still be seen, the back of the frame is stamped 511M. A rare survivor in original good condition.
|
Totem, BR(W) WESTON MILTON, F/F. Ex GWR station, opened as Weston Milton Halt in 1933, it was situated between Worle and Weston-S-Mare General station near to Locking Moor Road. A rare totem that has only appeared once before for sale. In good condition with a few small repaired face chips.
|
LMS enamel Warning Not To Trespass Sign. White lettering on black ground. In extremely good condition, most of these are certainly poorer than this gem.
|
Carriage Print 'Loch Shiel, Western Highlands' by Douglas Macloud from the LNER series. In an original, glazed frame.
|
Midland & Great Western Railway (Ireland) C/I Carriage Plate, 'M.G.W.R 3 Broadstone 1883'. Ex 30' 1st class 6-wheel carriage which had 4 compartments and 32 seats. Oval with scalloped bottom containing the date, 7 1/4" x 5 3/4" in ex carriage condition. A great rarity indeed.
|
LNER C/I Station Seatback GRANGE PARK. Ex GNR station between Winchmore Hill and Enfield Chase, opened in 1910. Measures 36" in length and is in totally ex platform condition.
|
GWR brass Signal Box Lever Plates, x 3 to include a huge 21" example with not only number 15 Down Siding Start'g at the top but 25 lever numbers. The other 2 has 65 From Bay To Down Main Adv'c'd Start'g with 6 lever numbers and 32 Disc For No 35 and 4 lever numbers. All are rib less and in pretty much ex box condition. Believed to be from the Gloucester area. Together with Midland Railway brass Signal Box Lever Plates, x 2 with the following inscriptions: Signal From Shunting Sidings To Dead End (on the rear it has Signal Down Sidings To Up Line) and Main Line Crossover. Together with a couple of LMS (W) ornate brass Carriage Window Strap Adjusters.
|
Shedplate 31B March until May 1973, face restored rear original.
|
Single Line bronze Tyer's No.9 Key Token MILLBURN JN - ROSE STREET (No.2) created for the temporary single line section between the signal boxes during stage works for the revised track layout introduced at Inverness as part of the Inverness resignalling scheme introduced on 8th March 1987. The token dates from 1986 when it was the intention of BR at the time to replace the ageing Tyer's No.6 tablet instruments on the section between Rose Street and Clachnaharry with refurbished electric key token machines. Due to logistical delays the project was overtaken by the installation of RETB and the electric token machines and their key tokens which had already been supplied, were never installed. As a result the token is in excellent condition save for the where the "Clachnaharry" legend has been ground off and replaced by "Millburn Jn.".
|
Carriage Print 'Wisbech, Cambridgeshire' by Gyrth Russell from the LNER series. In an original type, glazed frame.
|
LNWR Fletchers 15 position Pegging Train Describer in a green, C/I case with brass faced rim containing the holes to insert the peg. Ex Shrewsbury, there are 11 segments described: Crewe Line; From Hereford Terminating; Eng To Severn Bdge End; From Welshpool Terminating; Loop Line; Pass To Wellington Via Loop; Eng To Crewe JCT End; Eng To Turn And Return; Coton Hill Yd Via No 4 Plat (dymo tape). Complete with pegging pin and in excellent condition overall.
|
L&NWR Nameplate 'HERCULES'. Curved brass measuring 49" in length, wax filled engraving with 'L&NWR Co May' one end and 'Crewe 1877' the other end. Between 'Crewe' and '1877' it has been stamped 'Rebuilt /97'. Ex L&NWR 'Renewed Precedent' Class 2-4-0 locomotive number 1105, designed by FW Webb and known as 'Jumbos'. Taken in to LMS Stock and numbered LMS 5077. Finally scrapped in July 1928.
|
