£504
A Private Collection of Seals: Highlights from The Matrix Collection | 749
Auction: 19 May 2023 at 11:00 BST
the turned wooden handle of baluster form, to a brass collar, the integral matrix with engraved transport depictions and 'GENERAL TERMINUS AND GLASGOW HARBOUR RAILWAY COMPANY 1846'
Provenance:
Lot 145 Great Central Railwayana Auctions, 13th October 2012
Note:
The General Terminus and Glasgow harbour railway was authorised in 1846, opening in part by the end of 1848, its main function was to be the transportation of the booming collieries from Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, depositing the coal for further transport on the south bank of River Clyde. It also had an instrumental use in linking already established railway lines together, these included Pollock and Govan, Glasgow and Paisley joint railway, and Kilmarnock and Ayr railway, as well as those using the Clydesdale junction railway. The line would continue until 1854 when parts of it were amalgamated with the Caledonian railway and a final amalgamation would take place in 1865.