That's brilliant sb30inch!

I have a couple of things to say:

The Scottish Thistle casting on the handle is fantastic, and would
fetch a pretty penny for the thugs that remove them and sell them at
auction mad

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Beautiful, Fierce and Robust ...
It's the National symbol: http://www.scottish-at-heart.com/scottish-thistle.html
Shanks was a company very thoughtful of symbolism; particularly
in their naming their mowers with metaphysical names:
Wizard, Fairy, Dragonfly, Firefly, Jehu, Rajah ... Talisman.

The Anthony Horden's plate is also significant.
It helps date this machine to the 1920s. It is only the third one
I have seen, and it gives valuable provenance to your machine.

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Great story with great information.
A highly collectible and historically important lawnmower.
They just don't make 'em like that anymore.

The rest is history.
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Jack