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A collection of Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge games to include, Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Legend of Zelda (golden cartridge), McDonald Land, and others, together with an NES cleaning kit and controller pad To be sold on behalf on Monkey World, Dorset
about Lot 21
Camera Lenses, including a Leica LTM 5cm f/2 Summitar lens, a Fed 5cm f/3.5 Elmar copy, an Old Delft (Oude Delft) Rayxar 50mm f/0.75 X-Ray lens with L39 mount adaptor, a Russian M42 mount 85mm f/1.5 Cyclop lens
about Lot 90
A cream and green painted wooden sign, Use of Sawdust and Sand Prohibited, 33 x 45 cm. Provenance; ex H&BR's Springhead Works, collected with the permission of the demolition team around 1980 when the works were demolished. This was located in the staff washroom. The Hull Barnsley & West Riding Junction Railway and Dock Company (HB&WRJR&DCo.) was opened on 20 July 1885. The name was changed to The Hull and Barnsley Railway (H&BR) in 1905. The Springhead Works were built on green-field land north of the main line outside the then area of urbanisation of Hull.
about Lot 314
An 18th century pearlware Toby jug of so-called 'step' or 'Twyford' type, circa 1780, modelled seated with foaming jug, lacking pipe and decorated in shades of brown, 24cm. Sold with a copy of an Eric Hudes receipt, dated 01/11/1969, £120
about Lot 349
Corgi Toys 309 Aston Martin D.B.4 Competition Model, white/turquoise body, lemon interior, spun shaped wheel hubs, racing number 7, Union Jack & Chequered flag decals on bonnet, in good original condition blue/yellow illustrated box.
about Lot 90
1929 Shaw Special, 10.5 hp. Registration number AW 6769. Frame number 3534083 (ABC). Engine number M32171 (Austin). In my time as an auctioneer one occasionally comes something that you are at a loss of how to catalogue, this wonderful creation is one of those times, so I think the best way is to tell a story with a little bit of poetic license. In 1929, engineer, John Shaw of Scarcroft in Leeds, began designing and building his own motorcycle using an ABC motor cycle frame and an Austin Seven motor car engine. One presumes that he either had an old ABC with a broken engine or an Austin with a damaged chassis/body. The ABC was produced by the Sopwith Aircraft Company and designed by Granville Bradshaw, who had developed a 398cc overhead valve flat twin engine during the Great War and placed it in a duplex loop frame with sprung front and rear forks. It was one of the most advanced designs of its time but did not sell well and the company folded in the mid 1920’s. The Austin, being of small size, fitted quite well within the frame and he then designed the shaft drive to power it. There is a photograph on file of the shaft drive being on the right-hand side of the machine, maybe a mark one version, as he soon decided on across the frame with flexible couplings to the rear wheel via a cardan shaft. By late 1929/early 1930 he had decided on the finished article which used the c.1927 Austin Seven and gearbox, mounted at an angle, with twin radiators, (similar to a Scott). With three forward gears and reverse, it used either a hand or lever operated clutch, coupled brakes by hand or foot, electric or foot start, riding on AJS 26” wheels, the rear being detachable. During 1930 and 1931 Shaw then undertook some 8,000 miles of touring on all kinds of roads and tracks in Britain including Park Rash (Kettlewell), Keigthley Gate (Ilkley) and Middle Tongue (Cumbria) which provided information on the performance of the motor bike. By 1931 he was satisfied that his machine was running perfectly and he successfully patented the coupling mechanism with the shaft drive (patent number 393,947, submitted on the 10th December 1931 and granted on the 12th June 1933). In the mid 1930’s he toured the continent with his wife as pillion rider for two or three weeks at a time on several occasions. Interestingly George Bough introduced the Brough Superior Austin Four for the 1931 Olympia Motorcycle Show. It was listed in the 1932 Brough Superior catalogue as the 'Straight Four' but it was commonly known as the Brough Superior Austin Four, or BS4, or '3-wheeled Brough'. The machine is powered by a modified Austin 7 engine and gearbox unit, from which a driveshaft emerges on the centre-line of the motor. Rather than design a new gearbox, George Brough kept the central driveshaft, and use a pair of close-couple rear wheels driven by a central final drive box. This 3-wheeled design was legally considered a motorcycle as the wheel centres were within 24". One wonders if Brough had seen Shaw’s machine? During 1931 The Motor Cycle magazine had four articles on the Shaw Special, August 31st under the title “The Nameless Wonder”, September 3rd, December 10th when Shaw, under the pseudonym Austin Primus, describes its particulars and the 24th December under “An Enthusiast’s Austin-engined Machine”. At some point the engine was bored out by 40 thousanths, possibly to gain more power. John Shaw was an engineer of some repute having also designed and built an aluminium bodied car with the A55 engine and latterly even designed his own house in Scarcroft. He was recruited as works manager to the purpose built factory at Crewe to produce the Merlin aero-engines which powered the Spitfire and Avro planes during WW2. Shaw passed away in 1967 and his wife loaned the machine to the Nostell Priory Museum, where it remained until Sotheby’s sold the Harry Fenby collection that had made up the bulk of the museum in 1980. It was returned to Mrs Shaw who gave it to her nephew in law, our vendor. Unfortunately, the museum had lost its original number plates and substituted others and therefore our vendor applied to the Local Vehicle Licensing Office in Hull in 1983 for a V5 with the correct registration mark and this was provided. As they could not locate a frame number, they issued it a new one and asked for it to be stamped, and this was to be undertaken during restoration. However during the stripping the original number appeared on the headstock when the frame was restored. Unused for many years, he decided in 2010 to have it restored by Chris Woodcock of Norton. The engine was stripped and rebuilt, (when the rebore was discovered) , gearbox and clutch overhauled, a replacement Zenith carburettor was fitted as the original Amal had metal fatigue (included with the sale), frame and metalware was powder coated, radiators overhauled, nickel plated and rechromed where required, speedo, magneto and dynamo reconditioned and the seat recovered (original included). Since the restoration it has been regularly started up but not ridden and he has now decided to part with this wonderful creation, when viewed the engine fired on the first pull of the starter and sounded very quiet and smooth. Sold with the V5C, copy V5, copy of the patent, the original magazine articles, various period photographs, a CD of the restoration work and other paperwork. It is the subject of a magazine article by Classic Bike.
about Lot 1117
Dunlop Stock, a circular single sided vitreous advertising sign, diameter 60 cm
about Lot 70
An Omega Seamaster Professional Co-Axial Chronometer 600m Planet Ocean stainless steel gentleman's wrist watch c.2012, Ref. 22095000, No. 85362875, the rotating metallic orange bezel set with Arabic numerals, matt black dial with luminous batons, red Arabic numerals to the quarters and date aperture at 3 o'clock, the stainless steel case diameter 41mm, on original stainless steel bracelet, in original box with unopened certificates in leather wallet, booklet and Omega tag, with outer card box.
about Lot 125
Alan Wallwork (1931- 2019); a stoneware split pebble with impressed decoration around the parting, incised AW mark, height 24.5cm, Wallwork label to the underside, price £42. ARR This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk or http://artistscollectingsociety.org
about Lot 98
c. 1959/1970 Seeley Mk III type/Norton Dominator race bike project, 599 cc. Registration number, not road registered. Frame number, not found. Engine number 99/2210. Discovered at the back of Hull racer, Mike Browns shed, see lots 1163 and 1165 Spicers 7th November auction, this frame bears a strong resemblance to the legendary Seeley MkIII one but no number could be found, and as with many racers of the period, local fabricators often experimented with their own versions. We have loosely assembled a machine that Mike rode back in the day with a Dominator engine, concentric carbs, front disc with Lockheed calliper, Borrani rims, Seeley tank, faring with both short and TT seats. The engine plates support a Quaife gearbox, not with this lot. The engine is an unknown quantity. This should make an interesting project for a period race bike.
about Lot 313
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