Sale 322P, Closing Date: Tuesday, 7th June 2022
SRA Postal Auction: Paperwork
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Lot 1292 Album of paperwork, much relating to the NER, though companies such as East and West Yorkshire Union, Hull and Barnsley and Eastern and Midlands noted. - Sold for £22 to bidder number 4963
Lot 1293 Album of railway paperwork, including advertising brochures with corner damage, a quantity of maps from official publications, waybills and letterheads from a variety of companies, Yorkshire Dales Railway half-yearly account noted. - Sold for £50 to bidder number 1817
Lot 1294 Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway (Warwick and Stratford Line, A Bill To Authorise, 1847. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1295 BR(W), CM and EE Dept, Cycling Permit (Swindon Only), issued to J Comley, G Shop, 12/8/1955, together with a letter re the issue of this cycling permit, red card, GWR style. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1296 Birkenhead Railway, Vesting In LNW and GWR, Act and Bill. (2) - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1297 No Lot. - This item was withdrawn from the auction.
Lot 1298 No Lot. - This item was withdrawn from the auction.
Lot 1299 Bristol Port Extension Railways, Bill For Extension, 1864. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1300 Calne Railway Company letterhead, 1883. - Sold for £12 to bidder number 599
Lot 1301 Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, Agreement With George Baker Esquire, 1829, four-page large format, handwritten on velum, with seals attached. - Sold for £240 to bidder number 249
Lot 1302 Chatham and District Light Railways, a quantity of court papers, claims, mainly relating to collisions between cars and trams, some include plans detailing the collision. ( ) - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1303 Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Directors Report 1923, 20pp. - Sold for £14 to bidder number 4283
Lot 1304 BR(NE), P Way Prize Certificate, Crabley Length Hull District, 1960, also Best Kept Station 1st Prize, Driffield, 1960, the back has been used for drawings and details of signalling in the Driffield area. (2) - Sold for £40 to bidder number 1393
Lot 1305 David Shepherd prints, Dubs Crane Tank 4101 and Andrew Barclay 1398 Lord Fisher, unmounted, 9"x10". (2) - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1306 Dividend statements, West Somerset, Wigan Junction, Solway Junction, East Lincs, Forth Bridge, Forth and Clyde, etc. (16) - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1307 East and West Junction Railway paperwork, parcel waybill, schedule of wagons, memos and privilege ticket orders. (12) - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1308 Articles of Agreement, East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway and the LNWR, 4th December 1850, with seal of the former company. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1309 Carriage board overlay labels, East Coast Limited, London (Kings Cross) - Edinburgh (Waverley), blue on white, four sections to mount on two boards. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1310 East Coast Railways letterhead 1870 and memo 1910. (2) - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1311 East Kent Railway, Authorisation Card to be on the railway premises, J Smith, carpenter, Shepherdswell, well used; Colne Valley Railway, pilotman's ticket, unused; SER ballast train permit; and a quantity of other forms relating to single line working, etc. (25) - Sold for £45 to bidder number 7077
Lot 1312 East Norfolk Railway (extension to Cromer), letterhead, 1875. - Sold for £22 to bidder number 1285
Lot 1313 BR, Egloskerry Station Ticket Issue And Accounts Book, August 1966-8th October 1966. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1314 Chemins de Fer de l'Etat, Caen to Cherbourg, Reconstruction of the Merderet Viaduct, Execution and Shielding Drawings. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1315 GNR v Leicester Union, 1884, bound volume covering legal case 9th April 1884, 180+ pages, in copperplate writing, leather bound, gilt title, damage at base of spine. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1316 GWR, Further Powers Bill, 1864. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1317 GWR, Conversion of Gauge Certificate authorising a section of line to be re-opened, May 22nd 1892, yellow card. - Sold for £30 to bidder number 4272
Lot 1318 GWR Royal Hotel, London Terminus, bill for accommodation, etc, 1855, with VR duty stamp. Stain at the top. - Sold for £65 to bidder number 4848
Lot 1319 GWR receipts, labels and paper slips, unused Excursion Tickets label, Reservations, Restaurant Car Bookings, BAC weighing Machine tickets with LNER adverts, etc. (27) - Sold for £40 to bidder number 1181
Lot 1320 GWR Cloakroom Book, Pembridge Station, 1930-1945, lacks covers, page edges heavily stained in red. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1321 Paperwork/letterheads, Pembroke and Tenby, Wye Valley, Leominster and Kington, West Midland, South Wales, Banbury and Cheltenham, Central Wales and CJR, Oswestry and Newtown, Vale of Llangollen. (10) - Sold for £22 to bidder number 287
Lot 1322 A letter to GWR General Manager from Frank Burridge, 29th April 1946, requesting information and photographs of GWR locomotives for a forthcoming publication on nameplates. He encloses a copy of his SR booklet and a sample photograph of LMS nameplate Novelty. (3) - Sold for £45 to bidder number 3156
Lot 1323 File of correspondence between E Rankine Gray and GWR, much detail of locomotives, one copy carboned on the back of a Holiday Haunts proof of advertisement form. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1324 Golden Valley Railway, Agreement To Purchase Land, 187X. Unused. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1325 Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway (Deviations), Notice of Abandonment, 1861. - Sold for £80 to bidder number 338
Lot 1326 Album containing a substantial quantity of GWR and constituent companies paperwork, particularly relating to Herefordshire and the Welsh Borders. - Sold for £40 to bidder number 432
Lot 1327 Isle of Wight Railway, Interest Statement, 1886, also seven Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway titled supply notes. (8) - Sold for £18 to bidder number 2708
Lot 1328 Isle of Wight Railway letterhead, folding sheet, with company roundel featuring locomotive. Sandown 1903, though no other text, a little discolouration. - Sold for £75 to bidder number 2708
Lot 1329 Kent and East Sussex Railway, OCS envelopes printed to H F Stephens Tonbridge, Agent Robertsbridge, Agent Headcorn, unused. (3) - Sold for £40 to bidder number 7077
Lot 1330 Magazines, LMS Enginemen's Mutual Improvement Class Papers 1935, LMS March 1938, LNER March 1947, BR January 1948 (LNER style), ER February 1963, WR March 1962, September 1960, BR(S) June 1955. (8) - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1331 Letterheads/paperwork, Birkenhead Joint, Lancaster and Carlisle, Birkenhead Langton Cheshire, Buckley and Connah's Quay, Preston and Wyre, North Union. (15) - Sold for £22 to bidder number 757
Lot 1332 LNWR Circular, 1859, Entire Horses, Racing Purposes. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1333 Liskeard & Caradon Railway, Scheme Of Arrangement Between The Company And Their Creditors, some edge wear, undated. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1334 London and Southampton Railway, Prospectus, with map, 1833, also LSWR Act 1880, SR Special Trains Easter 1927, cover detached, and other booklets. (6) - Sold for £70 to bidder number 249
Lot 1335 Midland Railway Secretary, Derby, letterhead, coat of arms, pencil notes, folds. - Sold for £18 to bidder number 356
Lot 1336 Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway Prospectus 1851, 4pp. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1337 No Lot. - This item was withdrawn from the auction.
Lot 1338 Letterheads, Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway, Traffic Manager Blisworth, used 1904 and Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Superintendent's Office, used 1858. (2) - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1339 House of Lords, Petition Of Appeal, NBR Co And Budhill Coal And Sandstone Co, 1907, 288pp, with coloured folding plans. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1340 North Staffordshire Railway, Engine Pass, J E Robinson, 1923, folding card, a little wear from use, generally good. - Sold for £22 to bidder number 657
Lot 1341 Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Coal or Goods Train Time Bill, dated 183_, vignette of an early train at the top, rather dusty. - Sold for £70 to bidder number 7577
Lot 1342 Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Co, headed letter, 1860 and Maryport and Carlisle, 1873. (2) - Sold for £22 to bidder number 414
Lot 1343 The Railway Times and Joint Stock Chronicle and similar publications, 1870s-1880s, some with vignette of early train under title, several with cover or back damage. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1344 Agreement, Somerset Joint Committee and GWR, re Wells S&DJR station, includes attractive coloured fold-out plan of the station, 1860s. - Sold for £70 to bidder number 1191
Lot 1345 Letterheads/paperwork, Border Counties, Y&NM, South Yorkshire, Maybole and Girvan, London and Blackwall, Edinburgh and Glasgow, etc. (10) - Sold for £85 to bidder number 7577
Lot 1346 Alley and MacLellan, Sentinel Works Glasgow, fifteen invoices dated 1872-1895, all with Sentinel Ever Watchful loco. (15) - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1347 Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries and Crewe Railway, letter re proposed railway, 1845, single sheet, wear in places. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1348 Sir Nigel Gresley, an LNER wartime identity card, 9th July 1940, signed by Gresley and Charles Newton. The card is marked at the top and base. An historic item, accompanied by notes from the Gresley Society and a press cutting referring to the card's sale in 2003. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1349 Stockton and Darlington Railway Mineral Waybill, Spring Gardens, 1859, engine number 57 and nine wagons. - Sold for £16 to bidder number 1393
Lot 1350 Hand-drawn station layout plans, 1950s/60s, covering a wide variety of locations, various regions, most arranged alphabetically. The diagrams vary from intricately drawn hand-coloured examples of a high quality through to pencil sketches. Eleven volumes, approximately 8"x4½". - Sold for £75 to bidder number 9324
Lot 1351 Hand-drawn station layout plans, 1950s/60s, covering a wide variety of locations, London Midland Region. The diagrams vary from intricately drawn hand-coloured examples of a high quality through to pencil sketches. Fourteen volumes, approximately 8"x4½". - Sold for £75 to bidder number 9324
Lot 1352 Hand-drawn station layout plans, 1950s/60s, covering a wide variety of locations, Eastern Region, including Northern Line. The diagrams vary from intricately drawn hand-coloured examples of a high quality through to pencil sketches. Thirteen volumes, approximately 8"x4½". - Sold for £75 to bidder number 1409
Lot 1353 Hand-drawn station layout plans, 1950s/60s, covering a wide variety of locations, Southern Region. The diagrams vary from intricately drawn hand-coloured examples of a high quality through to pencil sketches. Eight volumes, approximately 8"x4½". - Sold for £75 to bidder number 9324
Lot 1354 Hand-drawn station layout plans, 1950s/60s, covering a wide variety of locations, Western Region. The diagrams vary from intricately drawn hand-coloured examples of a high quality through to pencil sketches. Fourteen volumes, approximately 8"x4½". - Sold for £75 to bidder number 9324
Lot 1355 Wagon labels, a box containing GNR, LNER, BR and other examples including pre-grouping. - Sold for £120 to bidder number 432
Lot 1356 LMS, West Cumbria, two substantial files relating to passenger closures in the Whitehaven and Workington area and analysis of rail operations, 1930s. (2) - Sold for £80 to bidder number 4283
Lot 1357 Whitbread trade cards illustrating pub signs, numbers 1-50, the back states 'Whitbread Inn Signs, first series of 50, designed by Violet Rutter, built at Wateringbury Brewery', plastic cards similar to credit cards. - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Lot 1358 Whitbread trade cards illustrating pub signs, numbers 1-25, Maritime Series, also special issue of four, Rutter, Wateringbury, all card. (29) - Item unsold, will be re-offered at a later date.
Total number of Lots in Paperwork: 67.
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