GREAT Central's live online auction on March 2, the first of three flagship railwayana sales held on Saturdays within three weeks, provided comfort to those who felt that such an intensive timetable would dent the resilience of the market.
Many within the railwayana movement – be they vendors, buyers, interested spectators, and even some of the auction houses themselves – felt uncomfortable that the volume of items coming up for sale would impact on demand, and thus prices, especially for such highend memorabilia as nameplates, other locomotive hardware, and station totem signs.
But come the evening of March 2, as
