![]() Increasingly, large scale models are being built in greater numbers due to the availability of large lathes and milling machines, and large scale models are easier and more practical to drive. Most small scale models are now kept as display models and the larger 3 inch and 4 inch examples are used at rallies around the country. Model live steam traction engines also feature in the Transport Sales, and include the small 1 inch scale agricultural engines up to half size ploughing engine. If an item has a link to transport then it is highly likely we will be able to offer it in one of our auctions. We offer ships’ wheels, binnacle and ships’ fittings, portholes, navigation lamps and models of ships, as well as model ‘planes, ‘plane propellers and even engines. We also offer transport related items, nautical or aeronautical, featuring automobilia and railwayana and including transport related books, plans and historic items. ![]() Provenance and builders are also factors in the value of locomotives and famous makers such as Harry Powell, Louis Raper, Stanley Beeson, Jackson of York and John Adams of Poole can double or treble the value of locomotives offered for sale. The quality of workmanship is extremely high and this will always be reflected in the prices achieved. Many of the lots offered come from either Estates or retired mechanical engineers who have spent many hours and years carefully producing these unique and wonderful models. A model of a 7 ¼ inch gauge Great Western Railways locomotive, Caerphilly Castle, built by David Aitken, realised £124,000 in The Pete Waterman Collection. ![]() The heavier 7 1/4 inch locomotives tend to realise the highest prices at auction.Īuction prices continue to remain strong for all live steam models and Dreweatts holds the world auction record price of £170,800 for a 7 ¼ inch gauge LMS Duchess of Buccleuch tender locomotive built by the late Harry Powell of Crewe, which was offered in The Salem Collection. The most collected and used gauges range from gauge 1 as used in home garden railways to 3 1/2 inch and 5 inch gauge models found on model engineering club tracks. We also offer models powered by live steam which can range in gauge size from 0 gauge to large 10 1/4 inch gauge – including locomotives used in parks, pleasure grounds and on private estate. However, we specialise in hand built models to standard designs built by skilled model engineers from sets of castings to traditional designs of The Great Western Railway, London Midland & Scottish, The London North Eastern Railway and many small regional railways as well as freelance models. We offer locomotives of any size along with their related rolling stock. We regularly handle important single owner collections of live steam locomotives, recent auctions have included The Salem Collection of Live Steam Locomotives The Witheridge Collection of 7 ¼ inch Locomotives, The Pete Waterman Collection of gauge 1 to 7 1/4 inch gauge models and The Lord Braybrooke Collection of Fine Live Steam Locomotives from Audley End, Saffron Walden. This wide ranging category cater for all pockets, from just a few hundred pounds and up to many thousands. In recent years our sales have grown and developed considerably and these are now high profile events that are regularly and extensively covered in both specialist and mainstream press. Managing Estates: Probate & Market Valuationsĭreweatts is unique in the market in offering two annual specialist auctions of Live Steam and Model Engineering.Clocks, Barometers and Scientific Instruments.British and European Sculpture and Works of Art.British and European Ceramics and Glass. ![]() ![]()
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