?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.) Archive of approximately 45 large nineteenth-century drawings and design schematics. Ink, watercolor, and graphite on various papers and drafting cloth (several JWhatman/1830s watermarks seen). 50x30 inches the largest; tears and repairs, most archivally mounted on heavy paper; scattered ink stamps and annotations of the Great Western Railway Engineers Office, Paddington. Paddington, United Kingdom, 1830s to late 19th century
An interesting group for the British railroad enthusiast, including original scaled diagrams and topographic plans for iron and stone bridges, girder elevation and reinforcement, track interchanges, pumping houses and craneworks, engine and track components, station design, and various other related infrastructure and machinery.
