INCREDIBLE HAND BUILT ATKINS STOVER AMERICAN OUTLINE LIVE STEAM ENGINE & TENDER.

INCREDIBLE HAND BUILT ATKINS STOVER AMERICAN OUTLINE LIVE STEAM ENGINE & TENDER. Perhaps one of the finest and most elaborate live steam engines created by a craftsman with respect to meticulous detailing as well as quality. This model of the New York and New Haven Railroad #90 was built for the consignor’s grandfather who was an iron industries magnate, a big train buff and who was responsible for building and developing the Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad. In the late 1800s, the elder Robert Coleman commissioned Atkins Stover of Brooklyn to build three trains for each of his sons. This very train ran on a custom track around Coleman’s Cornwall mansion property and was later on display at the Lebanon County Historical Society in Lebanon, Pennsylvania in the mid-1990s being on longterm loan by Robert Coleman, Jr. (grandson of Mr. Coleman, and the present consignor). A wheel configuration of a 4-4-0 with an 8-wheel tender, this particular engine is reminiscent to those that have traveled the continent in the mid to late 1800s. In very intricate detail, including miniature valves and steam lines, a boiler door, seats in the cab, lettering and scroll work, and leaf spring suspension on the tender, the boiler is fashioned of wrought steel while other parts were made from nickel, copper brass, and silver plate. The engine and tender are accompanied by their original packing crates (though one crate top has been replaced and affixed with a modern clasp). The tender crate cover is affixed with its original canvas shipping label from Col. Archibald Rogers to the elder Robert Coleman. Models/toys like these seldom come to market, let alone being as fresh as this piece, having been held in private hands for many many years. This presents a unique opportunity to the prospective buyer to purchase an exquisite locomotive and tender with family provenance extending well over a century. SIZE: Locomotive: 31″ l x 13″ h., tender is 16-1/2″ l., 4″ between flanges. CONDITION: Overall is very fine plus condition with some paint touch up to the cab and tender done by the younger Coleman many years ago. 1-11062 (15,000-25,000)

Auction: Advertising, Toy & Doll - Spring 2011

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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	1114	$40,825.00	INCREDIBLE HAND BUILT ATKINS STOVER AMERICAN OUTLINE LIVE STEAM ENGINE & TENDER. Perhaps one of the finest and most elaborate live steam engines created by a craftsman with respect to meticulous detailing as well as quality. This model of the New York and New Haven Railroad #90 was built for the consignor’s grandfather who was an iron industries magnate, a big train buff and who was responsible for building and developing the Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad. In the late 1800s, the elder Robert Coleman commissioned Atkins Stover of Brooklyn to build three trains for each of his sons. This very train ran on a custom track around Coleman’s Cornwall mansion property and was later on display at the Lebanon County Historical Society in Lebanon, Pennsylvania in the mid-1990s being on longterm loan by Robert Coleman, Jr. (grandson of Mr. Coleman, and the present consignor). A wheel configuration of a 4-4-0 with an 8-wheel tender, this particular engine is reminiscent to those that have traveled the continent in the mid to late 1800s. In very intricate detail, including miniature valves and steam lines, a boiler door, seats in the cab, lettering and scroll work, and leaf spring suspension on the tender, the boiler is fashioned of wrought steel while other parts were made from nickel, copper brass, and silver plate. The engine and tender are accompanied by their original packing crates (though one crate top has been replaced and affixed with a modern clasp). The tender crate cover is affixed with its original canvas shipping label from Col. Archibald Rogers to the elder Robert Coleman. Models/toys like these seldom come to market, let alone being as fresh as this piece, having been held in private hands for many many years. This presents a unique opportunity to the prospective buyer to purchase an exquisite locomotive and tender with family provenance extending well over a century. SIZE: Locomotive: 31″ l x 13″ h., tender is 16-1/2″ l., 4″ between flanges. CONDITION: Overall is very fine plus condition with some paint touch up to the cab and tender done by the younger Coleman many years ago. 1-11062 (15,000-25,000) Auction: Advertising, Toy & Doll - Spring 2011 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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