Article: Train set the star of a pounds68,000 sale

Article: Train set record puts auctioneer on track for a ...
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  January 3, 2008 ;     610 words ... ... second saleroom in Honiton, it is still thriving. Owner Duncan Chilcott said: "We held seven auctions in 2007 - six in Tiverton ... collection of Hornby trains that set a world record for a train set. It sold for pounds68,418, making headlines as far away ...

Article: The train set is now arriving at auction
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  October 11, 2007 ;     308 words ...A devon enthusiast's model train set is to be auctioned. Clifford Patrick's Great Western Railway ... when possible with private collectors in mind. Auctioneer Duncan Chilcott said: "The collection is one of the best I have had the ...

Article: Huge train set fetches pounds68,000
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  October 25, 2007 ;     447 words ... ... which dominated the collection. His family felt that it was fitting for the collection to be sold in Devon. Auctioneer Duncan Chilcott said the 345 lots comprised "one of the finest and most impressive pre-war model train sets to come on the market in ...

Article: Rail buff's model train collection set to sell for pounds30,000
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  October 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... a magnificent train set in an attic room ... in 2003 and his train set is dominated by ... the sale, which Duncan Chilcott said will comprise ... mind. Auctioneer Duncan Chilcott said: "The collection ... of the ultimate train set that would take ...

Article: The pounds 30,000 gravy train.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  October 16, 2007 ;     313 words ...THIS "ultimate train set" is on track to fetch more tha pounds 30,000 when it is auctioned ... collector of Hornby O Gauge model railways until his death in 2003. Duncan Chilcott, of auctioneers Chilcott in Tiverton, Devon, said it is one ...

Article: TRAIN SET IS A DELIGHT FOR YOUNG AND OLD
Post-Tribune (IN);  April 6, 1994 ;     573 words ... ... COLOR) Robert Kentner sets up his train set Tuesday at the Happy Moments Day Care ... Kentner has a new home and so does his train set. Amid the sometimes curious, sometimes ... large train sets. "I have a bigger train set at home, but it's too big to bring ...

Article: World's largest train set expected to fetch pounds ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  December 9, 2001 ;     553 words ... ... family. The spectacular 1906 Marklin train set, with a locomotive that puffs real steam ... children played with the gauge 5 (120mm) train set before an anonymous family member decided ... the extraordinary toy at auction. The train set was sent to London because it was felt ...