[Farmall] Freeman auction prices

[Lane Freeman]

Overall, the auction results were a surprise to me(in a good way). 
Memorabilia, toys, manuals and signs did equally as well as the tractors. 
I'm still not cleaned up from two thousand people converging on my farm 
after 2 inches of rain falling just two days before the auction.  The 
collecting bug has not grabbed me yet, although the crew of Aumann Auctions 
were taking bets that I would buy my first tractor within 2 months.  I did 
pick up a Gehl CTL70 track loader with 20 hours on it just to do work around 
the farm but that isn't exactly a collectable.  The guys at my local IH 
dealership just took in a cherry 1486 on trade and think it would work well 
in my empty pole barn.  But I think Bob Currie and you would be upset with 
my defection from the hand cranker ranks if I bought that one; almost sounds 
like something a "cheesehead" would buy.

 Karl, you should have come for the O-14

Lane

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Olmstead" <olmstead at ridgenet.net>
To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 5:42 PM
Subject: [Farmall] Freeman auction prices


> Haven't seen any comments on Lane Freeman's IHC auction.  Just checked the 
> Aumann site and found a summary of the auction results.  Big bucks!!
>
> See:
> http://www.aumannauctions.org/cgi-bin/mnarclist.cgi?aumann/20060929/category/ALL
>
> That beautiful little O-14 with full fenders went for $12K.  Lane's diesel 
> SMVTA went for $45K.  There were a few of the more ordinary O-12s and 
> I-12s that went for the kind of money I'd expect.. $1K to $3K.
>
> The really early stuff went very high, the F-12 thru F-30 and 10-20 type 
> tractors went fairly low.  Letter series did OK.
>
> Still need an O-14 for my collection....
>
> -Karl
>
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