JUBILATION AS ‘JUBILEE’ COLLECTION FINDS NEW HOMES

THERE WAS jubilation among collectors as the Kenneth Rex Phillips collection of ‘Jubilee’ locomotive items (see News SR521), was offered for sale with bids by email and telephone by Railwayana Auctions UK between September 10 and 12, following viewing of the items at Crewe Heritage Centre on Saturday September 4.

The auction got off to a good start as Lot 1, brass nameplate Ajax, ex-45689, went for £9,200.

There were soon five-figure hammer prices to follow with British Guiana (45601) reaching £15,000, Codrington (45676) at £10,000, Madras (45575) at £12,200, Malay Estates (45615) at £14,000, Punjab (45579) at £11,600, Raleigh (45639) at £10,000, Uganda (45636) at £10,100 and Western Australia (45568 – pictured) at £12,000.

Following the sale of the nameplates came a selection of ‘Jubilee’ BR cast iron smokebox numberplates, with the top prices in this section going to 45611 (ex-Hong Kong) at a hammer price of £6,200, a price subsequently equalled by 45742 (ex-Connaught).

The next section in the sale featured five alloy steam locomotive headboards with the top hammer price of £6,000 being paid for ‘The Thames Clyde Express’.

Of the non-‘Jubilee’ smokebox numberplates, the example from ‘4P’ 2-6-4T No. 42509 (ex-locomotive with handwritten allocation details on the rear) reached £1,300.

Among the cast iron shedcode plates from the collection, a restored 3B Bushbury made £650, with 66A Polmadie not far behind at £620.

In addition to the main collection, a few additional ex-‘Jubilee’ nameplates were also included in this sale. One of these, Lot 3 Australia, ex-45563, was the first of the nameplates in the auction to reach five figures with a hammer price of £10,000. Other non-collection nameplates sold included Barham (45653) at £8,600 and Beatty (45677) at £8,000. www.ukrailwayana.com