Auction of Fort Paull museum exhibits
Something for everybody in this auction in September. Fort Paull near Hull in Yorkshire is selling everything from cannons, rifles, machine guns, armoured vehicles, uniforms, etc. Includes 25 pounders, 3.7" AA, aircraft, and all the display fittings.
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How come we don't get auctions like that here in Canada? Then again, I would be broke for a year if we did.
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How much space did this museum take up? Where did all the mannequins come from????
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South African Reconnaissance Car Mk IV
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Heads-up on a South African Reconnaissance Car Mk IV for sale. Interestingly, this is the rarer Mk IV version built with Marmon-Herrington All Wheel Drive components, rather than the later Mk IVF which used F60L CMP driveline components.
Read more here: http://www.mapleleafup.nl/marmonherrington/armdcar.html https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/a...e-ac0600cc3dc1 Attachment 115860 Attachment 115861 Attachment 115862 |
Hi Hanno
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=31450 In case members wanted something else. regards Darrell |
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"Marmon Herrington MKIV Armoured Car, this vehicle is a restoration project, it has an engine and running gear, This lot does appear to be deactivated but has no certificate" Attachment 116260 Attachment 116259 |
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Also sold were two 25-pdr field guns.
One was built by GMH Australia (at least the carriage was): Quote:
Second one is British-built: Quote:
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Mounds of manuals
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And then there were many manuals sold off in lots of ten (roughly from lot 685 and onwards).
Many MCP, CMP and British vehicle (related) manuals, which sadly all suffer from getting mouldy to a certain extent (like many other artefacts in the auction): Attachment 116265 Attachment 116266 Attachment 116267 Attachment 116268 Attachment 116269 |
The Marmon was in extremely poor condition All tin work would need remanufacturing, very little of anything good inside .
The Australian 25 pdr was also very poor with salt air ingress and went for way over what I thought it was worth as well as being incomplete. The Avery 25 pdr was complete and in good order ,a simple restoration. Generally everything in the sale was in very poor condition due to its coastal location and poor preservation. Rob...................rnixartillery. |
I wonder why anyone would have wanted to import an Australian 25-pdr into the UK sometime after the late 1950s or early 1960s?
Sounds like 'coals to Newcastle'. Mike |
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Shows that one should visually inspect an item before proceeding to buy. |
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It had a great deal of rot in places ,surprisingly the belly of the carriage was solid. Rob...................rnixartillery. |
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I believe that Australian 25-pdr was sold at the Pickles auction of equipment from the Newcastle (NSW) Regional Museum in March 1997. I was present at the auction and am sure it was bought by a UK dealer along with some other lots. Actually it was coals from Newcastle!!! regards, Richard |
Thanks Richard, that clears up the mystery nicely. Indeed, coals from Newcastle! I was pretty sure it was not a WW2 import due to the muzzle brake with locking collar and the modified traverse gearbox mounting.
I hope whoever purchased it does a nice restoration, despite the rot - the GMH guns assembled at the Pagewood plant in Sydney are the rarer of the 25-pdrs from the two Australian major co-ordinating contractors. Mike |
One can only hope, Mike. I sometimes wonder how many unique collectable items are lost forever from owners who see what they want, but not what they have.
David |
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I can add a little anecdote to the Newcastle auction, the auctioneer clearly stated before bidding started on the 25-pdr that you would need to hold a licence. It was knocked down to a guy holding a beer can, who had probably already consumed several more, for $3000 Aussie dollars. When asked for the licence the guy said he did not have one. So the bidding started all over again and sold for $2300. Richard |
Hi Richard, thanks that's interesting to read.
Would you happen to know where the South African Reconnaissance Car Mk IV (a.k.a. Marmon-Herrington Recce Car) came from? Quote:
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I would put money on it being one of RnR,s ,Mike had three or four in his yard back in the early ninety's.
I think I have some pictures somewhere ! Rob....................rnixartillery. |
Rob, you are 100% correct, Mike was at the auction. The serial number in the catalogue matches the one in the photo on this thread.
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Well thankyou mate !! Lol...........
I can remember them in his yard ,a couple of them were on Canadian chassis and at the time they had just restored one to go overseas. Those were the good old days ........................ :thup2: Rob..................rnixartillery. |
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I think I have seen it somewhere before. It definitely was not in the Australian auction. |
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Found it ! this was one of several RnR had back in the nineties.
As I mentioned before a couple were on Canadian running gear. There are still quite a few of these in Greek Scrap yards today . Rob.................rnixartillery. |
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