Rail & Road auctions is proud to present our late Winter railroadiana auction for 2024. This two day sale features just over 600 lots split between two days. Below are some of the highlights for this auction.
Thursday March 7, 2024
Our Thursday sale features a wide array of railroadiana including lanterns, china, paper, advertising, uniform buttons, and more. Some of the notable lots include a Handlan Chesapeake and Ohio caboose marker lamp, Toledo, Ottawa Beach & Northern restored classification lamp, early Pennsylvania Railroad paper, Western Electric candlestick dispatchers phone w/ scissor mount, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern extended base clear globe, 1933 Big Four / New York Central retirement certificate with the original mailing tube, Monon cordial glasses along with other assorted Monon china and silver, various lots of Wabash Railroad china, pair of Armspear Lanterns converted to table lamps, Illinois Central Land O’ Corn coffee cup and saucer set along with a 10 ¾” dinner plate, railroad / traffic lens group, original Monon alligator match safe, a lot with 135 glass telegraph insulators, and much more.
This is a very diverse 300 lots and we invite you to browse the catalog to appreciate the breadth of this session.
Friday March 8, 2024
Our Friday session includes the marquee items for our March sale. These items include a Griswold Rotating Stop Banner Crossing Signal, pair of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway aluminum passenger car Kachina medallions, Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore fancy back brass lock, a Western Sandblasting drum head from Boston & Maine’s “Rye Beach”, an original Baltimore and Ohio cast brass locomotive nose plate, and the original artwork for the book “Superpower” by David Weitzman. Also, the inclusion of a number of decks of railroad playing cards. Some of these decks are rated V5-V7 on the rarity scale and present in fine condition. Rail & Road will be handling a very large transportation playing card collection over the coming months, and we invite you to keep a close eye on the catalogs for some incredible decks of playing cards.
Other highlights of the day include a collection of railroad brass door knobs and lock sets, Santa Fe stemmed cordial glasses, Great Northern wooden ticket case, Alco Chesapeake and Ohio 2-8-4 builders photograph, W.M. Porter & Sons nickel conductors lantern, Chesapeake and Ohio embossed step box, Pullman smoke stand, original number board from a Pennsylvania GP7, restored Rock Island Morton step box, Rand McNally railroad map cabinet, Adams & Westlake brass railroad chandelier with an extra burner pot, and a 14 ¾” brass locomotive bell.
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