Actual name & numberplates for the model railway room?

[OnTheBranchline]

While it would be cool to own a name or numberplate from a locomotive, but one look at these prices:

 

http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-us/search-filter?searchterm=nameplates&sortTerm=highestimate

 

I think I'll pass on that one.

 

However, with most things in life, you get what you pay for.

 

 

[pH]

Just to really p1ss you off - I believe the going price for a Jubilee nameplate from BR as they were being withdrawn was 7GBP.

[Londontram]

Back in the day as a young (19 year old) volunteer at the Midland railway center one duty I had one Sunday evening after an open day was with 4F 4027 help shunt some stock back into the carriage shed at Swanwick junction including Princess Margret Rose, shunting with a 4F in the fading light of a fine summers day when there's just you and the driver was an experience to remember in its own right.

    Maggie roses two name plates were held in place with some coach bolts and I soon took them off and we returned to Butterley shed with the two name plates in the cab of the 4F with us only to find all the buildings locked up and every one apart from a few gone for the night. On inquiring on what I should do with the two very big and heavy brass name plates the loco foreman (Mr Eric Riley of Toton depot fame I believe) said take them home and bring them back next week, trust me I didn't have to be told twice. Boy did those name plates get a good polishing that night and sat proudly above my own layout I had at that time for the next week I just wish I'd taken some pictures.

     As a foot note to the original question living in the north Nottinghamshire area when we still had collieries I'm ashamed to say that more than once armed with an adjustable spanner I've sneaked onto the colliery yard and raided the wagon scrap lines for builders plates which once cleaned and painted adorned my bedroom wall. I'm not sure what Maggi roses plates were worth in the early 1980s but I sold the wagon builders plates for between £5 and £10 each depending on the dates 1947 being about the oldest I had.

                          Sorry to go on Steve

[Bernard Lamb]

Just to really p1ss you off - I believe the going price for a Jubilee nameplate from BR as they were being withdrawn was 7GBP.

Which is probably what most will fetch in 20-30 years time.

Which will p!ss off all those who have wasted their money in recent years.

Several "collectables" have seen the market collapse. An age related item seems to me to have every chance of going that way also.

Bernard

[wirey33]

You can of course buy a replica.

 

http://www.newtonreplicas.com/

 

You could have "The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry" for £530, good value at £16.56 per letter.

 

Or "Meld" for £230, poor value at £57.50 per letter.

 

Or "West Yorkshire Metropolitan County" at just £9.35 per letter.

[bobthesod4479]

Not the railway room, but the dining one (last pic on the thread)

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/111032-b17-footballers-claret-and-blue-or-green-and-gold/

[Zomboid]

You can of course buy a replica.

 

http://www.newtonreplicas.com/

 

You could have "The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry" for £530, good value at £16.56 per letter.

 

Or "Meld" for £230, poor value at £57.50 per letter.

 

Or "West Yorkshire Metropolitan County" at just £9.35 per letter.

91001 "Swallow" not available then... Shame, I've still got the Hornby model of it somewhere...

[The Stationmaster]

While it would be cool to own a name or numberplate from a locomotive, but one look at these prices:

 

http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-us/search-filter?searchterm=nameplates&sortTerm=highestimate

 

I think I'll pass on that one.

 

However, with most things in life, you get what you pay for.

 

They are of course the auctioneer's estimate and one or two of them strike me very much as what are known in the trade as 'come on' prices designed to encourage bidding and give folk an idea of where to start rather than what the plate will finally fetch - especially what it will fetch if two people really want it and are prepared to pay for it.  But in the end it is the market which sets the price and collecting markets change over the years sometimes dipping and sometimes rising.  However generally provided you bought at the right time you can bet that, like many collectables, some nameplates will beat inflation by a handsome margin.

['CHARD]

My various plates are ready for when the new man-cave is able to receive them!