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The 'Nolan' is certainly an attractive machine. It looks as though it was left outside a cyclists' cafe, on a clubrun in about 1959, and for some inexpicable reason the owner never went back for it.
The thing that caught my eye about this is the vendor's claim that it is 'potentially very rare'.
Surely something is either rare or it is not. 'Potentially rare' suggests going around destroying other things similar to the one you have so as to make your thing more rare!
I've never heard of Jimmy Nolan, either as a frame builder, shop owner or competitor. This may be because I'm a Londoner and not familiar with the west country scene in the 1950's, but I suspect Mr. Nolan may have been some one in a small way of business who bought in some frames from a trade builder, and a few sets of transfers. In that case we may have a perfectly good but commonplace frame, with a very rare set of transfers.