Wild Swan flies the nameplate flag while worksplate heads all others
Jan 14, 2020
3 minutes
BY GEOFF COURTNEY
IT WAS not so much a victory for nameplate Wild Swan in Great Central’s December 7 auction at Stoneleigh, but rather total domination, for the £30,000 realisation achieved by this LNER representative from A4 No. 60021 was nearly four times the £8000 hammer price of the category runner-up, Hermit from another Gresley Pacific, A3 No. 60109.
Snapping at the wheels of the A3 was a trio of closely-matched plates, comprising from LMS (GWR No. 6934 – £7300) and from WR Manor class No. 7825, which realised £7200 – its cabside numberplate going to the same bidder immediately after for £2300.
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