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SHEFFIELD RAILWAYANA AUCTIONS PRESENT A POSTAL AUCTION SALE No. 144 of RAILWAY BOOKS, POSTCARDS, POSTERS, PHOTOGRAPHS, TIMETABLES, MAPS, HANDBILLS, LUGGAGE LABELS, SMALL ITEMS OF RAILWAYANA, BUS & TRAM ITEMS AND OTHER TRANSPORT EPHEMERA On view at The Gateway Centre, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Nottingham Road, Derby DE21 6AF, on Saturday 8th September 2012 from 08:00 to 13:00. THE LOT NUMBERS IN THIS CATALOGUE START AT 501 CLOSING DATE FOR BIDDING IN THIS AUCTION IS 5 p.m. FRIDAY 14th SEPTEMBER 2012 Great Central Railwayana Ltd 14 School Street, Woodford Halse, Daventry, Northants NN11 3RL Contact Details For information concerning condition or description of lots during the auction and dispatch contact Brian Moakes by e-mail to [email protected] or by phone on 01234 391545. For queries about bidding or payments following the auction, contact the GCR office on 01327 262193. Office hours 10am - 5pm Monday to Friday e-mail:[email protected] PLEASE NOTE REVISED INSTRUCTIONS ON THE YELLOW BIDDING FORM POSTAL AUCTION Closing Friday 14th September 2012 at 5 p.m. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE 1 Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the description of lots but we hereby give notice that all statements, whether spoken or written, are those of opinion only and we do not hold ourselves liable for any errors or omissions. Obvious defects will be noted and unless stated otherwise, all items are considered by us to be in at least good to very good condition. Customers are reminded that certain lots may be fragile due to their age, wear, etc. When handling such material on viewing day at Derby, you are asked to treat it with the utmost care and attention. 2. Bids should be made on the Bidding Form (yellow) provided in the centre of the catalogue. The Bidding Form may also be downloaded from the website. 3. All lots in this section carry a reserve which is published and in all cases will be no less than a minimum of £5. Bids may be for any amount in whole pounds (pence will be ignored) and the highest bidder on any lot will be successful. The amount of the bid paid by the successful bidder, which will be at one bidding step above the previous highest bidder, will be determined by bid increments as defined in the following scale: Value of bid Increment Value of bid Increment Up to £10 £1 Between £100 and £500 £10 Between £10 and £30 £2 Between £500 and £1000 £20 Between £30 and £100 £5 Over £1000 £50 When there is only one bid at or above the reserve, the bidder will pay the reserve price. In the case of equal highest bids, the lot will go to the first bid received. Any unsold lots will be available to buyers for a period of 10 days after the auction at the reserve price on a “first come, first served” basis. PLEASE NOTE THAT BIDS RECEIVED THAT DO NOT CONFORM TO THE INCREMENTS SHOWN IN THIS TABLE WILL BE ROUNDED UP TO THE NEXT LEGAL BID ABOVE. 5. Bidders may indicate on the Bidding Form if they want to limit their overall spend. In this event, and unless we are instructed to the contrary, the order in which the bids are entered on the Bidding Form will be assumed to be the order of priority for the purpose of applying the overall limit. 6. If bidders wish to make conditional bids (e.g. if unsuccessful with Lot XX then please bid on Lot YY etc.), please append your instructions clearly on a separate sheet attached to the Bidding Form. Please note we cannot accept “accumulator” bids whereby the unspent portion of one bid is transferred to another to bolster that bid. 7. A Buyer’s Premium of 10% + VAT (12%) will be raised on all items at the time of settlement. 8 . There are two methods of payment: (i) You may enclose with the Bidding Form a signed cheque made payable to “Great Central Railwayana Ltd” (DO NOT ABBREVIATE) with the amount left blank, and endorsed “Not To Exceed £XXX” where XXX is the total of all your bids (or your spending limit) PLUS 12% (Buyer's Premium + VAT) Buyer’s Premium and an allowance for postage and packing. DO NOT FORGET TO SIGN YOUR CHEQUE. Your cheque will be shredded if you are completely unsuccessful (if you require its return, please enclose a stamped addressed envelope), otherwise we will enter on the cheque the amount due and an invoice will be enclosed with the lots you have successfully purchased. (ii) We also accept debit and credit cards in payment for items bought but we will levy a commission charge of 2% (in addition to all other charges) for credit card purchases (this charge is passed on to us by the banks). No charge is made for debit card purchases. You must indicate on the Bidding Form if you wish to pay by this method. Your card details must be entered on the Bidding Form. SHEFFIELD RAILWAYANA AUCTIONS As you may know, Sheffield Railwayana Auctions have recently been taken over by Great Central Railwayana Limited. The SRA postal auctions will continue in their present form and incorporate the GCR postal auctions. Sales will be held with all lots displayed at Derby four times a year. Bidding forms, which should be accompanied by a cheque or card details, can be handed in at Derby or posted to the Great Central office in Woodford Halse where all bids and payments will be processed. Results will be on our website gcrauctions.com by midday on the Monday following the close of the sale. Brian Moakes will continue to produce our postal auction catalogues, handle enquiries relating to lots, organise the display at Derby and arrange the usual prompt dispatch to successful bidders. IN FUTURE, POSTAL AUCTION CATALOGUES CAN BE SIMPLY DOWNLOADED FROM OUR WEBSITE AND PRINTED. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO DO SO AND REQUIRE A PRINTED COPY TO BE POSTED FOR DECEMBER AND IN FUTURE, PLEASE TICK THE BOX ON THE BIDDING FORM IN THE CENTRE OF THIS CATALOGUE AND RETURN THE FORM WHETHER BIDDING OR NOT. WE APPRECIATE THAT GCR CUSTOMERS MAY ALREADY HAVE REGISTERED TO RECEIVE A PRINTED CATALOGUE, BUT WOULD ASK THAT THEY RE-REGISTER TO RECEIVE THE NEW AMALGAMATED AUCTION CATALOGUES. VIEWING All the lots in the Postal Auction section will be on view at The Gateway Centre, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Nottingham Road, Derby DE21 6AF, on Saturday 8th September from 8:00am to 1:00pm. Directions are shown at the back of the catalogue. Completed (yellow) bidding forms may be sent to the address shown on the form at any time before the closing date/times. They may also be handed over to the stewards on duty in the viewing room at Derby if desired (together with a “Not To Exceed” cheque or debit/credit card details in accordance with Condition 8 above). The Postal Auction section will close promptly at 5 p.m. on Friday 14th September. Please note: The price shown in italics against each lot is the reserve or starting price. Please note also: Bids received that do not conform to the increments shown in our Terms & Conditions (Section 3) will be rounded up to the next legal bid above. 501 HARDBACK BOOK “Views on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway” by John Blackmore. Approx 100pp of text and engravings. Published by Currie and Bowman in 1836. Covers partially faded, bumped and rubbed. Foxing throughout. £20 502 HARDBACK BOOK “The Story of McAlpine Steam Locomotives 1869-1965 with list of contracts” by JB Latham. 310pp, complete with dust jacket, published by the author in 1993. £20 503 HILLS S.M. “Battery Electric Vehicles”. Hardback, 232pp, published by George Newnes in 1943. Spine slightly faded. £10 504 COLLARD P: “Proposed London and Paris Railway". 279pp plus fold out map, hardback, published privately in 1928. Some foxing, covers bumped. £10 505 SEKON GA “Evolution of the Steam Locomotive". Hardback, 327pp, published by LPC in 1899. Good condition. £10 506 Early TERENCE CUNEO book “Tanks and how to draw them”. Hardback with illustrated dust jacket, 62pp, fully illustrated, published by Studio Publications in 1943. Slight wear to dust jacket. £10 507 HARDBACK BOOK with dust jacket “Bagnalls of Stafford” by Allan C Baker and T.D. Allen Civil. 686pp published by The Phyllis Rampton Narrow Gauge Railway Trust in 2007. As new condition. £30 508 HARDBACK BOOK “The Ceylon Government Railway – descriptive and illustrated guide” by Henry W Cave. 240pp plus fold out map, published by Cassell in 1910. Covers a little rubbed. £10 509 HARDBACK BOOK with dust jacket “London Transport Posters” by H. Hutchinson. 100+pp illustrating famous LT posters, published by LT in 1963. Minor edge tears to jacket, some discolouration to spine. Plus LT Museum published softback book “By Underground to Kew” detailing LT posters from 1908. (2) £10 510 PAPERBACK BOOKLET “Ten Years of Progress – The Southern Railway from 1923-1932". 32pp, no publisher or author mentioned, but probably official. Covers a little faded. £10 511 Bound volume of the BOMBAY, BARODA AND CENTRAL INDIAN RAILWAY company magazine. Volume 9 covering 1928, 544pp in part leather bound hardback covers with title in gold on spine. Covers rubbed, spine faded. £10 512 Larger sized HARDBACK BOOK “Interborough Rapid Transit (the subway) in New York”. 150pp published in 1904. A few annotations, minor foxing. £10 513 Foreign language HARDBACK BOOK “Dall’Omnibus alla Metropolitana 1861 – 1961”. 272pp detailing the history of trams in Milan.