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Display of Mel’s pre-war collection of mainly Hornby Trains. Collecting Railwayana by Jack Tempest any people collect bygone items of one sort or another. The females have their own feminine interests and the males, naturally Menough, generally prefer to seek out the more masculine materials. For instance, from childhood days, grown men tend to have a leaning toward anything that runs upon railway tracks and steam power. I know many men who can talk about railways from dawn to dusk and who collect virtually anything associated with the railway business going back to Queen Victoria’s times. I have met members of the ‘gentle sex’ who share such enthusiasm for railways and had enjoyed Hornby Trains in their youth - but not many!
Collectors often follow their hobby because discovering rarities is great fun and, when their interest comes to an end they may, hopefully, be sold off at a price that allows them a very useful profit. Real enthusiasts do not really think that way and probably inwardly wildly believe that their collection will finally be taken with them to their Valhalla! What sort of railways do they collect - locomotive models, toy railway products made by Frank Hornby of Liverpool, England (he gave us the male-orientated Meccano sets and through them encouraged hundreds of boys to make their careers in the engineering businesses) and the German companies that successfully earned world-wide praise for their modelling. Frank Hornby became famous for his do-it-yourself boys’ construction outfits he introduced in 1901 which he originally named Mechanics Made Easy and later changed to Meccano, which was less of a mouthful and One of our leading authorities on helped to popularise world sales. Hornby had many dealings with some of the German toy manufacturers such British Railways, the Great Western as Gebrüder Bing and Märklin. From such companies he had bought many Meccano parts, including small Railway in particular, is Mel live-steam engines that were capable of powering mechanical items created by their youthful clients. There is Sherwood. His model layout is now a story that the very first Hornby train was not made in Liverpool, England, but in Germany. This was a simple on permanent exhibition at the 0-gauge four-wheeled engine that pulled a train made up of a tender and two coaches. It was packed into a Babbacombe miniature Garden carton with a set of tracks that formed a circle when clipped together. Village, Devon. There seems to be some concern that the very first Hornby train was not known as such. It was marked on the side as George the Fifth and the coaches were more Germanic in outline than British coaches. Few ‘model railway experts’ like to talk about Frank Hornby’s German connection but it is possible that once Meccano was fully established that the company decided to add model railway production to their business. This first railway set was made by Bing but the company connection quickly came to a halt when the 1914-18 War began. I understood that the box sets were shipped to Liverpool docks. M Ld. L was featured on the engine, the winding key, and the box lid - an abbreviation of Meccano Limited, Liverpool. No mention of Hornby. Also ‘Made in England’ was featured on the toy and box lid. Some say the trains were withdrawn and stored in a cellar at the factory until the end of the war then reintroduced after the war and pictured in the first Hornby Big wheel engines were popular in Book of Trains never to reappear! The original engine was fitted with a reversing clockwork motor - the post- the nineteenth century. Yet another war versions could not reverse! fine1930s model by Edward Exley. Railway fever is for all classes - the very wealthy get the opportunity to buy real engines and have money left to service them, run them, and store them. The famous 1930s British steam locomotive the Flying Scotsman has bankrupted many owners and is now kept in the National Railway Museum at York. I knew the last private owner and he was a steam fanatic who ran an annual steam fair on the Derbyshire Moors. His enthusiasm led him to have the famous engine on show there on two occasions. He had to have a section of track laid to stop the weighty vehicle sinking in the peaty soil and it, and its giant tender, was brought up on two gigantic low- loaders at great expense. Anything to do with railways of the past is now very collectable - bygone railway posters, passenger tickets, signalling horns, old station signs, early passenger and goods wagons, semaphore signals, lamps, official books, brass nameplates - and any memorabilia whatsoever appears to be highly collectable. There is a great Framed completed GWR jig-saw worldwide interest in the railways and model railways - earlier the better - play a big part in this universally puzzle, many such puzzles were happy hobby. Collectors collect railway items because of their sheer interest in the subject and large sums of popular in the 1930s. They are very money change hands at special auction sales of railwayana - and old railway associated toys. collectable today, providing they have no missing pieces!
ANTIQUES INFO - September/October 09 Toys Selection of Locomotives from www.antiques-info.co.uk
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Four inch gauge live steam LMS Fine quality Bing Gauge ‘1’ Live black livery locomotive, 2-6-4, No Steam 4-4-0 locomotive and tender. 2425, forward and reverse, pressure Amongst Mel’s railwayana collections is this large Meccano advertising Tennants, Leyburn. Jun 09. HP: gauge, sprung buffers, other tradi- model made for shop publicity purposes by Frank Hornby’s company in the £8,000. ABP: £9,410. tional fittings, 92cm long. 1920-30s. 2 Charterhouse, Sherborne. Dec 08. HP: £1,200. ABP: £1,411.
9 Great Northern Railway-type live steam locomotive, 7.5 inch gauge, large enough to carry a seated person. Thos Mawer & Son, Lincoln. Oct 06. HP: £3,000. ABP: £3,528. Bing Live Steam 2.5 inch 4-4-0 locomotive, in Great Western Railway (GWR) livery, missing funnel and other items, 36.5cm. Sworders, Stansted Mountfitchet. Feb 07. HP: £1,150. ABP: £1,352. Is this the very first Hornby Train? Officially it was produced for Frank 3 10 Hornby in 1914 under the pre-Hornby title of Meccano Limited, Liverpool. It was made in Germany by Gebrüder Bing who had also helped in the GNR Atlantic, locomotive and tender, production of Meccano parts. Although named ‘King George the Fifth’ the gauge #1, live steam, Chippenham train set of engine, tender, and coaches were in Teutonic style. Auction Rooms, Chippenham. Feb 09. HP: £2,000. ABP: £2,352. 3.5 inch Gauge coal-fired G.E.R. live steam locomotive and tender, 0-8-0, 4 traditional fittings, overall length of locomotive and tender 107cm. Charterhouse, Sherborne. Dec 08. HP: £1,120. ABP: £1,317. Bing live steam 0 gauge model rail- 11 way: a 4-4-0 locomotive and tender in GNR livery, 4 carriages, 3 goods vehicles and 20 track sections. Sworders, Stansted Mountfitchet. Sep Stanier Class 2-6-0 locomotive and 07. HP: £1,650. ABP: £1,940. tender in 3.5 gauge constructed by a 5 professional engineer and operated in 1970s & 1980s, steam operated brakes, original boiler integrity Hornby 0-gauge Princess Elizabeth certificate available. Halls Fine Art, 4-6-2 tender locomotive, electric Shrewsbury. Jul 06. HP: £1,100. powered loco, RN 6201, 7P 6201 to ABP: £1,293. This fine model of an early Great Northern Railway engine of the 1920s(?) cab side sheets, lights on top of the 12 made by ? smoke-box and two above buffer beam. Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. Jul 07. HP: £1,350. ABP: £1,587.
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Gauge-1 live steam locomotive, ex- LSWR Drummond D15 4-4-0 tender 3.5 inch gauge coal fired live steam locomotive, RN E470, made by late LMS locomotive and tender, 4-4-0, Jim Dunford, inscription ‘Southern 80cm long, cased, display cabinet, Railway E470’, 8-wheel bogie water- with track. Charterhouse, Sherborne. cart tender. Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. Dec 08. HP: £1,250. ABP: £1,470. Nov 08. HP: £1,000. ABP: £1,176.
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7 Hornby Dublo three-rail 0-6-2 3.5 inch gauge coal fired live steam locomotive (EDL7) fine example of locomotive and tender, green/black an engine with ‘Southern’ on the tank livery, 4-4-0, traditional fittings, sides and RN2594 on the bunker, cased, with display track. olive green. Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. GWR posters advertising their services to Leamington Spa and St Ives, Charterhouse, Sherborne. Dec 08. Feb 07. HP: £820. ABP: £964. Cornwall in the 1930s. HP: £1,200. ABP: £1,411. ANTIQUES INFO - September/October 09 47 Toys
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Dublo EDG7 ‘Tank Goods Train Hornby 0 gauge electric train set, Set’: 0-6-2 tank locomotive in GWR Hornby 0 gauge No. 2 Special Tender No. 3 E: 4-4-2 Royal Scot locomotive satin green livery, RN 6699, three 4-4-0 locomotive, clockwork, RN and tender in LMS livery, two No 2 correct wagons, track and power A759, in Southern lined green livery. Pullman coaches, a 3rd class coach, controller, box complete with inserts, 3.5in gauge 0-4-0 live steam tank Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. Apr 09. HP: various boxed rails, a crossing point paperwork and loco packing cover. locomotive, ‘Hercules’, green/ black £740. ABP: £870. and railway accessories Nos 1 and 2. Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. Feb 06. HP: livery, 16in x 9in high. (commenced Sworders, Stansted Mountfitchet. Apr £460. ABP: £541. in 1966 and completed in 1972) 06. HP: £620. ABP: £729. Canterbury Auction Galleries, Kent. Dec 05. HP: £820. ABP: £964. 26 32 20 15 Bing live steam 040 locomotive in the Rare 0-gauge clockwork Caledonian livery of LNWR, c1926, single oscil- Lima 0 gauge spirit fired live steam Railway locomotive and 12-wheel lating cylinder within the cab, orig- Southern locomotive/tender, Tonbridge, passenger coach, ¼ inch:1 foot scale, inal box with original wood shaving 3.5in gauge 0-4-0 coal fired loco- 4-4-0, 905, boxed, and a Lima 0 tinplate model of the Cardean, RN packaging, lid missing, catalogue motive L.B.S.C. ‘Tich’ twin outside gauge Great Western corridor coach, 903, and West Coast 12-wheeled vest- reference 61/270/1 is apparent on end cylinders and valve gear, axle driven boxed. Charterhouse, Sherborne. Dec ibule corridor coach, manufactured label, guard van, 15 curved sections water feed pump, finished in blue, 08. HP: £460. ABP: £541. c1910 by W J Bassett Lowke & Co as of track, original instruction leaflets. 15.75in long with display track & 33 an unusual means of advertising for Halls Fine Art, Shrewsbury. Jan 09. engineering drawings. Hartleys, the Caledonian Railway Company. HP: £700. ABP: £823. Ilkley. Sep 08. HP: £600. ABP: £705. Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. Jun 07. HP: 27 £800. ABP: £941. Prices quoted are actual hammer prices (HP) and the Approximate 16 Buyer’s Price. (ABP) Includes an average premium of 15% + VAT. Bing for Bassett Lowke 0 gauge clockwork tender 4-4-2 Atlantic loco- Hornby-Dublo Tank Goods Train Set motive in Great Northern Railway (EDG7) Class N2 0-6-2T locomotive, 21 green livery, bolt on buffers and drop RN 9596, LNER apple green livery, Pearse Locomotives G gauge gas link couplings. Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. guaranteed label dated 24th Nov Clockwork 0 gauge 4.2.2 locomotive fired live steam locomotive, Southern Jun 07. HP: £560. ABP: £658. 1948, 1940s blue box. Wallis & and tender, GNR livery, a coach and green livery, 2-6-2, 38cm wide. Wallis, Lewes. Mar 09. HP: £450. track. Sworders, Stansted Mount- 28 Charterhouse, Sherborne. Dec 08. ABP: £529. fitchet. Feb 07. HP: £700. ABP: £823. HP: £800. ABP: £941. 34 17 Wrenn 4-6-2 loco W2305, Wadebridge, 22 SR green with tender, RN 21C107, one of only 93 made, original box Bassett Lowke gauge 1 spirit fired Kit built 0-gauge Southern Railway with instructions, appeared to have live steam LNER locomotive and ‘Schools’ class 4-4-0 locomotive, RN been test run only. Wallis & Wallis, tender, 2-6-0, three wick spirit burner 933 King’s Canterbury, with detailed Lewes. Feb 06. HP: £550. ABP: £646. and sprung buffers. Charterhouse cab fittings, sprung buffers, brass Auctioneers, Sherborne. Dec 08. HP: safety valves, whistle, cab window £450. ABP: £529. surrounds etc, fully lined with black 29 smoke deflectors and smoke box. 35 Little 3½ inch live steam locomotive, Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. Feb 08. HP: 0-4-0 outside cylinder saddle tank £680. ABP: £799. dock locomotive, ‘Tich’ style cons- Bassett Lowke O-gauge, Stannier, tructed by Fred Stone in 1962. ‘Dick’ Class 4, live steam 2-6-0 locomotive nameplates mounted on each side of 23 and tender (RN 42980), British Rail lined black livery, paint loss to centre saddle tank, detailed brass/copper Bassett 0 gauge George the Fifth section of the front running plate, fittings. Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. Nov Hornby 0 gauge clockwork loco- loco and tender, with a boxed Royal good condition throughout, original 08. HP: £760. ABP: £893. motive, Special Tender 4-4-0, Mail coach and six other coaches. box with paperwork. Wallis & Wallis, Yorkshire, RN 234, lined LNER apple (a.f.) Gorringes, Lewes. Dec 08. HP: 18 Lewes. Oct 07. HP: £520. ABP: £611. green livery, LNER to the tender £420. ABP: £494. sides. Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. Apr 30 09. HP: £660. ABP: £776. 36
24 Scarce Wrenn 4-6-2 loco W2289, Coal fired 3.5in gauge 0-4-0 tank Canadian Pacific, RN 21CS in SR locomotive, Juliet, twin outside wartime black, limited edition, one of Wrenn Railways W2416 Ltd Edn cylinders and valve gear, finished in around one hundred, original box Battle of Britain locomotive ‘Biggin Bassett-Lowke 0 gauge electric 0-6-0 black with fire irons, current boiler with minor corner rubs, locomotive Hill’, finished in B.R. green, with tank locomotive, No. 5305/0, Southern certificate from 8.10.08 by Brighouse was mint and appeared unrun. track, display stand, certificate No.31 Railway livery and No. 78, original M.E.S., 20 x 7 x 11in. Hartleys, Ilkley. Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. Feb 06. HP: of 250, boxed, M. Hartleys, Ilkley. box. Canterbury Auction Galleries, Mar 09. HP: £750. ABP: £882. £490. ABP: £576. Mar 09. HP: £660. ABP: £776. Kent. Dec 05. HP: £420. ABP: £494. ANTIQUES INFO - September/October 09 Toys
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Scratch built locomotivem 0 gauge Great Western R.O.D. 2-8-0 tender 50 Quantity of boxed/unboxed Hornby 0 freight locomotive, model of original Bassett-Lowke live steam locomotive gauge clockwork locomotives, rolling Robinson Great Central design as and tender, dark maroon/gilt livery, Bassett-Lowke 3 rail electric Flying stock and track, incl. boxed 0-4-0 modified by the GWR. RN 3016, No 6285, boxed and a quantity of Scotsman finished in L.N.E.R. green, tank locomotive No.2270, L.M.S. red electric motor for two-rail operation. associated track. (some faults) damage to plate work on boiler, cab livery (101) and similar unboxed 0-4- Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. Apr 09. HP: Gorringes, Bexhill. Dec 05. HP: roof, smoke box, front buffer beam, 0 tank locomotive No.460, L.N.E.R. £380. ABP: £446. £280. ABP: £329. buffer heads, hand rails, tender rear, green livery (s.d.), unboxed S.R. paint damage to locomotive & tender, cattle truck (type 4 base) etc. Richard tender buffers missing, locomotive Winterton Auctioneers, Burton on coupling missing, F-P. Hartleys, Trent. Aug 08. HP: £190. ABP: £223. Ilkley. Sep 08. HP: £420. ABP: £494. 45 51 58 38 Hornby Dublo British Railways green Hornby-Dublo 00 gauge, a 0-6-2 livery locomotive and tender Ludlow locomotive ‘Southern’ No.2594, Castle, 4-6-0, 5002, 3221, boxed. malachite green. Dee, Atkinson & Charterhouse, Sherborne. Dec 08. Harrison, Driffield. Mar 09. HP: Wrenn 00/H0 gauge British Rail HP: £350. ABP: £411. £280. ABP: £329. locomotive and tender Spitfire, 4-6-2, 46 Trix Twin 00 gauge boxed electric No 462, No 34066, with instructions, 52 train set: 4-4-0 Pytchley locomotive boxed. Charterhouse, Sherborne. Dec and tender in British Rail livery, with 08. HP: £420. ABP: £494. 2 passenger coaches and a Pullman Boxed Bassett Lowke Live Steam 2-6- This section is only a sample coach, fitted box. Canterbury Auction 39 0 LNER locomotive number 33 with from 1000s of results from Hornby Dublo 2-rail 3300 HP Galleries,recent sales.Kent. SeeDec our 05. website HP: £160. tender. Biddle & Webb, Birmingham. electric locomotive (2245). British ABP: for£188. an extensive selection. Mar 06. HP: £245. ABP: £288. Rail blue livery, lion and wheel crest Wrenn well detailed and scarce 4-6-2 on each body side, RN E3002, boxed, 59 loco W2278A Blue Funnel, Southern packing insert, maintenance, running Images are in descending Railway light green and black livery, instructions. Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. hammer price order. The No21C13, with tender, original box, Feb 09. HP: £330. ABP: £388. price range is indicated at instructions. Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. 53 the start of each section. May 06. HP: £410. ABP: £482. 40 Hornby Dublo British Rail black Hornby Railways Presentation Set livery locomotive/tender, 2-8-0, 8F4- with B.R. Britannia 4-6-0 and three 47 8094, 3224. Charterhouse, Sherborne. coaches, locomotive name changed to Hornby 0 gauge Special Tender 4-4-0 Collection of Hornby Meccano 0 Dec 08. HP: £240. ABP: £282. 70009 ‘Alfred the Great’, boxed, G, locomotive, clockwork, County of gauge tin plate model railway items and a second set with 70023 ‘Venus’, Bedford, RN 3821, lined GWR green incl. a Royal Scot 6100 locomotive 54 boxed, E. Hartleys, Ilkley. Mar 09. livery, with Great Western and crest and tender, 3 Pullman coaches, 040 HP: £150. ABP: £176. to the tender. Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. tank, engine and tender in green Apr 09. HP: £400. ABP: £470. livery, two Pullman coaches Viking 60 41 and Aurelia, rolling stock incl. Shell Spirit tanker wagon, GWR and LNER Princess Elizabeth loco, 2 rail, plat- wagons, etc. Wotton Auction Rooms, form, 0-6-2 tank loco & boxed tank Bassett Lowke 0 gauge LNER green Wotton under Edge. Feb 09. HP: passenger train set 2009, 5 Hornby livery locomotive and tender, Flying £320. ABP: £376. 00 boxed corridor coaches, 3 loose, 3 Scotsman, 4-6-2, 4472, clockwork. Hornby 00 boxed wagons, 6 Hornby 00 freight/rolling stock, 2 mixed bags Bing tinplate clockwork train set, Charterhouse, Sherborne. Dec 08. 48 early 20thC, station buildings, carr- HP: £400. ABP: £470. of scenery & track, 00 Electric Train Catalogue July 26th 1961 etc. Kent iages etc and an LMS locomotive, 42 Auction Galleries, Folkestone. Nov unmarked, in original box. 07. HP: £230. ABP: £270. Gorringes, Bexhill. Feb 06. HP: £140. ABP: £164.
Rare Victorian spirit-fired live steam 55 61 Wrenn 00/H0 gauge Southern 2-2-2 Piddler-Dribbler ‘Flying Railway livery locomotive and tender, Dutchman’ locomotive, made c1880, Canadian Pacific, 4-6-2, W2289, retailed by Clyde Model Dockyard, boxed. Charterhouse, Sherborne. Dec 13in long, 9in long boiler, externally 08. HP: £400. ABP: £470. fired. Wallis & Wallis, Lewes. Feb 09. Bowman & Co ‘live steam’ locomotive, 7in long, original box. HP: £300. ABP: £352. Boxed Bowman Models Live Steam 0- 43 Diamond Mills & Co, Felixstowe. 4-0 LMS 300 tank locomotive. Biddle Jun 06. HP: £130. ABP: £152. & Webb, Birmingham. May 06. HP: £220. ABP: £258. 62 49 56 Plank Vulkan spirit fired locomotive, Bassett Lowke Ltd Edn Princess 0-4-0, twin oscillating cylinders, twin Class Pacific locomotive ‘The Lady Patricia’, original packaging with wick burner, sprung buffers, funnel & Bassett-Lowke ‘County of Middlesex’ Hornby No. 2 Special tank certificates and appears to have had whistle, 16cm high, boxed. locomotive and tender. Cotswold locomotive, green Southern livery, no use. Halls Fine Art, Shrewsbury. Charterhouse, Sherborne. Mar 08. Auction Company, Cirencester. Jan No. 2329. Gorringes, Lewes. Jul 06. Nov 07. HP: £300. ABP: £352. HP: £400. ABP: £470. 07. HP: £200. ABP: £235. HP: £120. ABP: £141. ANTIQUES INFO - September/October 09 49 Hornby clockwork train set No.20 with 0-4-0 locomotive, three goods trucks and track, boxed, F. Hartleys, Ilkley. Mar 09. HP: £60. ABP: £70.
Mamod O gauge tank steam locomotive, in black livery with driver, 22cm. Locke & England, Leamington Spa. Jul 06. HP: £55. ABP: £64.
Hornby Dublo rolling stock comprising three rail, Bo-Bo diesel locomotive, 2-6-4 B.R. tank, five coal trucks, three oil tank wagons, cable truck, bogie bolster and N.E. brake van, nine pieces of three rail track, F-P. Hartleys, Ilkley. Sep 08. HP: £55. ABP: £64.
Playworn locomotive kits by GEM, some part built, and a Hornby Dublo 2-6-4 B.R. tank, P. Hartleys, Ilkley. Sep 08. HP: £55. ABP: £64.
Quantity of locomotives and rolling stock by Hornby Railways including two Royal Scots, five coaches, four goods trucks and track, some items boxed, F. Hartleys, Ilkley. Mar 09. HP: £55. ABP: £64.
Triang Hornby 4-2-2 'Lord of the Isles' locomotive and three G.W.R. Clearstory coaches, G-E. (4) Hartleys, Ilkley. Sep 08. HP: £40. ABP: £47.
Hornby Railways R2215 L.M.S. Princess Elizabeth, limited edition locomotive for Queen's Golden Jubilee, boxed, E-M. Hartleys, Ilkley. Sep 08. HP: £40. ABP: £47. Hornby Dublo 2232 Co-Co diesel locomotive, boxed, F, a Lima 2-6-0 B.R. Crab, boxed, F and a B.R. coach. (3) Hartleys, Ilkley. Sep 08. HP: £40. ABP: £47.
Playworn trains by Triang and Hornby including goods stock, B1 B.R. locomotive, tunnel and track, P. Hartleys, Ilkley. Mar 09. HP: £10. ABP: £11.