Rail memorabilia draws collectors
NZPA-PA Old railway tickets, luggage rack supports and dining-car oyster forks have become big business because of a new collecting craze around the world. Almost anything to do with Britain’s old railways has become highly collectable and prices are rocketing because of international interest. Enthusiasts are collecting anything from armbands and china to whistles and wooden nameboards, said a railway historian, John Mander, who has compiled the first complete guide to collecting “railwayana”. Even the most humble items are eagerly collected if they have been marked in some way with a railway company’s
name or initials, he said. Railway signs, timetables, seats, crockery and cutlery all attract great interest, as do clocks, watches, lamps and uniforms. Many collectors specialise in buttons, castiron door signs or parcel stamps.
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Press, 29 December 1988, Page 11
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