Antiques Trade Gazette 21
NEW JERSEY AVALANCHE The financial highlight of Bertoia’s November 11-12 sale in Vineland, New Jersey titled Toys on World Tour was provided by a 16in (40cm) Märklin gunboat. This exceptionally well-scaled toy ship,
Above: Eberl tourer, $9500 (£6330) at Bertoia.
NUREMBERG RACERS Hans Eberl was one of many tinplate toymakers who established himself in the surroundings of good company and competition in Nuremberg in 1900. His output consisted of several good quality handmade automobiles and novelty toys but, if the number of surviving examples is anything to go by, most were produced in small numbers. An 8in (20cm) two-seat clockwork
tourer, with a wind-up mechanism activated from the front crank, emerged at Bertoia’s November 11-12 sale in Vineland, New Jersey with an estimate of $600-750. Although the clockwork was inoperative and one wheel a replacement, the red paint and lithography was in very good condition. It sold at $9500 (£6330). An ostensibly similar toy from c.1908
was offered for sale by Special Auction Services on October 6-7. This two-seater powered by a flywheel and retaining its forward-leaning driver wearing brown outfit, cap and goggles, was marked JLH for John Leonard Hess, whose father Mathias founded one of the first toy factories in Nuremberg in the 1820s. Estimated at £500-800, it sold at £1250.
Above: a taste of the Claus collection at Bertoia.
MCCRINDELL’S STAR Ron McCrindell, one of the great pioneer UK toy collectors, died last August aged 91. Well known as the author of The Collector’s All-Colour Guide to Toy Trains in 1992, he was also easy to find as the famed landlord of the John Snow pub in Soho for many years. McCrindell was an early collector of fine
Märklin and Bing boats and also formed a collection of gauge I railway, which he ran until almost the day that he died. His collection is now being offered for sale
Above: Hess tourer, £1250 at SAS.
in more than 300 lots at Special Auction Services in Newbury on April 20 – the star piece, being a Märklin HMS Terrible, which appeared in the 2010 Toy Boats exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, and is estimated at £40,000-60,000.
painted in light blue and black with natural decking colours, features rotating deck guns, ram prow and fully railed deck, four lifeboats, two stacks, observation decks and clockwork driven wheels. The model was originally sold in Germany
prior to the First World War as Penzerkreuzer (armoured cruiser) but here was renamed Avalanche and was flying the Stars and Stripes for sale to the American market. It sold above hopes at $36,000 (£24,000).
READY TO FLOAT Part I of the Richard T. Claus collection of nautical toys and boats will be sold by Bertoia Auctions on May 12. Containing the crème de la crème of vessels by
Märklin, Bing, Carette and other premier European manufacturers, the collection, widely acknowledged as the best toy boat collection in America, was documented in Claus’ 2005 reference book The Allure of Toy Ships: American & European Nautical Toys from the 19th and 20th Centuries. Because of the high value of many of the boats, the collection is being sold in two auction sessions, with Part II appearing in the autumn.
Märklin Avalanche gunboat, $36,000 (£24,000) at Bertoia.
Märklin HMS
Terrible £40,000- 60,000 at SAS.
SPECIALIST TOY SALE 3RD
FEBRUARY
MAY 10-12, 2012 DOLL AUCTION
Lot 254: A Boxed Shackleton Foden Truck Lot 429: A Hornby Pre War Yorkshire Tender Loco
To include: Various ‘0’ Gauge Tine Plate Locos and Rolling Stock, a Georgian Style Dolls House, a 1950s Mickey Mouse Rocker, a selection of boxed Britains Lead Figures, a Fleischman/Märklin and Plank Stationary Engine, a wooden cased ‘What the Butler Saw’ Machine, various Robertsons Football Gollies, boxed Bassett Lowke 0-4-0 Peckett Industrial Wenman Loco, a Diecast Muffin the Mule, a boxed Shackleton Foden Truck, and a Hornby Pre War Yorkshire Tender Loco.
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Taking entries for: 17th February Antiques and Fine Art Sale, 27th April Collectibles Sale and 25th May Militaria Sale We are open Monday-Friday 9am – 4.30pm and able to provide formal valuations as well as Auction estimates.
Please contact Rebecca Mayhew or Robert Pearse at Durrants Auction Rooms, The Old School House, Peddars Lane, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9UE Tel: 01502 713490 Email:
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