Bing Gauge 111,Black Prince,Loco +Tender, Live Steam,Extremely Rare....

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Bing Gauge 111,Black Prince,Loco +Tender, Live Steam,Extremely Rare....:
$12500.00

A Truly,Stunning Bing,Gauge 111 Black Prince.Live Steam, Totally Complete With Burner.Highly detailed,cabin,with manometer+sight glass. loco+tender body,black with red+gold pin stripes. Brass plated,Russian iron steam chests.nickle+brass through out. Correct 6 wheel tender. Just a great example of a very hard to find Loco.i have never come across another in 25 years of collecting. E mail me for questions, more pic\'s or ? Disregard s Shipping Charges. Buyer pays actual shipping costs with insurance.No Extra Charges. No Returns. Good Luck, Ken HERE IS SOME UPDATED INFORMATION ON THE BLACK PRINCE. How the loco was determined to be no 8, were the factory stamping,8 on the side rods and steam block chests.Until No12 appeared there were no \'known\' examples. Yours makes the second. They are big locos so a good rate of survival is likely, but I\'d be quite surprised if there are more than two or three of the fist twelve still to emerge. None were kept by the company, when Lowke lectured in the 1950s he used a rather battered example from about 1904. Of course we do not know what happened after 12.

Hello Ken,I would really value some publishable pictures of this loco if you would be happy to take some against a plain background and have me write it up for the Bassett Lowke Society. What you have is No8 in the first batch of Black Prince locos made for Bassett Lowke and advertised in January 1901. I have No12. Yours is now the earliest known and as such quite a significant thing in toy train history. It is particularly interesting because it has those strange oval number plates, which are presumably solder applied. I suspect that Lowke suggested improvements, No1 did not have number plates as it was drawn for the \'Model Engineer\' with them \'inserted\', yours suggests that Bing\'s interpretation of what they should look like was wrong at first, but by No12 they got them right.