Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 3 December 2016
| Lot 158 | A smokebox numberplate, 70011, from the BR Standard Class 7 Britannia 4-6-2, HOTSPUR, built at Crewe and named after the late medieval English nobleman Sir Henry Percy, otherwise known as Harry Hotspur or simply Hotspur. Allocated new on 14 May 1951 to Norwich where it remained for ten years before moving to March and later Carlisle Upperby and Kingmoor from where it was withdrawn in the week ending 23 December 1967 and despatched for scrap to J. McWilliam at Shettleston on 7 March 1968. Ex loco condition. NOTE: We sold the nameplate Hotspur and a smokebox numberplate 70011 in our last auction. This second smokebox numberplate has now appeared and we have photographic evidence that both were carried, this one being the second, later version with the numbers much closer together than the earlier plate. Both are totally genuine. Ex loco condition. £1000-1500 |
| This lot sold for £2200 to commission or postal bidder number 3115. |
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