Old school collection offered quantity and quality

To kick off their one‑day collectors sale on January 31, more than 300 lots or railwayana were offered at the London Showroom of Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers, offering plenty of variety for bidders.

It was a good, old‑fashioned collection with both quality and quantity on offer, with selections including cast iron and enamel signs, wagon plates, shed plates, lamps, locomotive items, tickets, ephemera, tokens and badges. Some replica items were noted. While some lots went for £10 each, others sold in the high hundreds. The highest price on the day was for a diesel locomotive nameplate – a sign of the times?

The opening lot was a short bench using GWR cast ends that sold for a hammer price of £300. It was followed by a GWR brass combined name and numberplate Avalon 3332, stamped D.G. Owen, that realised £320.

Two BR(S) enamel signs, Waiting Room and Ladies Room, went for £180, while a Southern sunshine lettering‑style poster board heading and Please Show Tickets pairing reached £250. A Boscombe enamel station sign was sold for £210.

Among the wagon plates on offer were a repainted L&SWR Co. 8620 Nine Elms Works, which sold well at £640, while a ‘Registered by the G C Ry Co to carry 10 tons 1909/39281’, made £360. Three different sized bronze locomotive whistles sold together for a reasonable £260.

A BR(E) enamel totem station sign for Blackhorse Road realised £800, while a BR(S) example for Bournemouth West went at £680 and BR(W) Acton Central at £660. A SR enamel Basingstoke sign raised £340.