Burns & Co are gearing up for a big end to 2021, with a massive two-day collectors’ auction to be held in their Bayswater, Melbourne, facility this coming 9 and 10 October.
Previous Collectors Auctions conducted by Burns & Co, in March and June, were big, but the October auction will be even bigger.
Entries in the October catalogue have been received from South Australia, NSW, Victoria and Queensland, with over 1,000 lots consigned, including many rare and highly-desirable pieces of petroliana and garagenalia.
Items consigned so far include a varied range of enamel signs - from Shell, Neptune, Texaco, Caltex, Olympic, Castrol, Mobiloil, Atlantic, General Motors, Plume and Goodyear.
There are some desirable embossed signs amongst the consignments, as well as some more recent plastic signs, including from decommissioned…