AUTOMOBILIA & MOTORING LITERATURE To commence at 11am 6* Armstrong Siddeley. A seated Sphinx mascot, having good detail, in cast aluminium and mounted on a brass cap, 8cm high
While all care has been taken with the magazine and book cataloguing, all buyers are advised to inspect the lots for any inconsistencies before bidding.
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£40-80
4* Mallory Park Motor Racing Circuit. Four members’ badges for 1964 (2), 1965 and 1966, and four guest lapel badges for the same years, all with good enamels, cords and safety pins (8)
£40-60
1* Brooklands Automobile Racing Club. A full member’s motor-car badge, numbered 745 verso, with good enamels, depicting two racing cars at high speed beneath the members’ bridge, the image designed by F. Gordon-Crosby, although the surface is a little scratched, the enamel is in remarkably good order, save for a small chip to the top right corner, the chromiumplating has oxidised (1)
7* Vulcan Motor Eng. Co. A rare 1920s Vulcan motor-car mascot, being a nickelplated example with good detail, and cast onto an internal threaded radiator cap, good original condition, 12cm high
£200-300
5* Brighton & Hove Motor Club ‘Speed Trials 1933’. An entrant’s dashboard plaque with a racing car in profile and two armorials in coloured enamels, inscribed ‘E.C.E. Baragwanath’, also, a chromiumplated Eagle mascot, missing its threaded mounting stud, the former in good fettle, mounted on a shaped display stand 2* Brooklands Automobile Racing Club. Five guest lapel badges, two for 1933 numbered 1161; two for 1935 numbered 658, and an example for 1939 numbered 427, all with good enamels and original safety pins, also, two delivery boxes for 1937 numbered 481 and 1938 numbered 405, each in good order with card inserts, but several split corners (7)
£120-180
Edwin Charles (Ted) Baragwanath was an enthusiastic racer of large-engined motorcycles at Brooklands in the 1920s, and has a challenge cup named after him, still in circulation today. (2) £40-80
£200-300
8* Rolls-Royce 40/50hp mascot. An original late ‘Silver Ghost’ or pre-1928 ‘Phantom I’ mascot, a good original ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’ of solid German silver construction with excellent detail and features, inscribed ‘Charles Sykes, RollsRoyce Ltd Feb 1911’, fitted to an original 40/50hp radiator cap, and display-mounted, the mascot, 30.5cm high
3* Alvis. A set of The Alvis Cars Ltd. promotional cocktail sticks, each having the Alvis triangle motif in red enamel, mounted on German silver sticks, housed in their original fitted presentation box, with a faux crocodile-skin covering, sound condition, in need of a little cleaning (1)
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£40-60
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£600-800