{"id":2417,"date":"2012-11-29T18:40:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2012-11-29T18:40:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:40:24","slug":"edinburgh-corporation-tramways-enamel-sign-goes-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2417","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Corporation Tramways enamel sign goes up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who wish to own a bit of history from the original Edinburgh tram<br \/>\nsystem now is your chance as an enamel sign is to go up for auction on Saturday 1<sup>st<\/sup> December. The sign \u2013 which has come from a premises at 68-69 Broughton Street in the City \u2013 is double sided and was used to promote that the premises was an \u201cAgent for Edinburgh Corporation Tramways Parcel Express Parcel Tickets Sold Here\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The premises at Broughton Street was just one of around twelve parcel agents in Edinburgh and so there can\u2019t be many of the signs still in existence so this is a rare chance to own your own piece of Edinburgh Corporation Tramways memorabilia! And with the new Edinburgh tram system due to open within the next couple of years what better time to remind yourself of the good old days of the original tramway?<\/p>\n<p>The auction will take place at Shapes Auctioneers in Edinburgh on Saturday 1<sup>st<\/sup><br \/>\nDecember but if you are unable to attend you can view and bid for the item online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-saleroom.com\/en-gb\/auction-catalogues\/shapes-auctioneers-and-valuers\/catalogue-id-2853095\/lot-16294019\">http:\/\/www.the-saleroom.com\/en-gb\/auction-catalogues\/shapes-auctioneers-and-valuers\/catalogue-id-2853095\/lot-16294019<\/a> (this link also shows a photo of the enamel sign).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who wish to own a bit of history from the original Edinburgh tram system now is your chance as an enamel sign is to go up for auction on Saturday 1st December. The sign \u2013 which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2417\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}