[AT] Other related collections question for the list

[Al Jones]

Thanks Joe!
Al


-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Hazewin <jahaze at aol.com>
>Sent: Dec 21, 2011 8:20 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Other related collections question for the list
>
>Al, I may have one I could send you.  I'll see if I can find it in one of the stacks.  It might be for an A but I don't remember.
>
>Enjoy, Joe 
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:04 PM, "john hall" <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I'll keep you in mind Al. Unfortunately we've got far more implement 
>> brochures than tractor brochures.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:14 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Other related collections question for the list
>> 
>> 
>>> John, When you get ready to get clear of some of those 140 brochures, let 
>>> me know.  I'd love to add one to the collection. I expect you have some 
>>> other pieces that would make me drool!!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Al
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: john hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
>>>> Sent: Dec 20, 2011 10:39 PM
>>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Other related collections question for the list
>>>> 
>>>> If literature comes my way, I keep it. We have got a ton of IH stuff since
>>>> dad worked at a dealer. I've got a massive pile of farm and construction
>>>> literature that needs to be thinned out. Honestly, who needs 20 sales
>>>> brochures for late model Farmall 140's? When I ever get the time I intend 
>>>> to
>>>> keep the 2 best of everything and put the rest on Ebay. One thing I find
>>>> real interesting are the salesman books showing the list prices and in a 
>>>> few
>>>> cases, deals being figured with individual farmers, some with trade-in
>>>> allowances. Unfortunately I don't know what happened to the rest of the
>>>> literature the dealer had. Hopefully it was sold when they closed up. It 
>>>> was
>>>> everything from horse drawn equipment to refrigerators. I never saw 
>>>> anything
>>>> from the truck division, they must have liquidated that when they gave up
>>>> the contract about 20 years before closing.
>>>> 
>>>> We've also got the Remington and Mall chainsaw parts books--along with 
>>>> some
>>>> literature for other brands they had picked up for comparison.
>>>> 
>>>> Other stuff we use is the entire line of Cub Cadet parts books through 
>>>> 1991,
>>>> and all the air cooled engine, magneto, and Echo parts books. I sometimes
>>>> wish we had bought the service manuals for the IH items, but those went 
>>>> for
>>>> a small fortune at auction.
>>>> 
>>>> John Hall
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Grant Brians" <sales at heirloom-organic.com>
>>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:16 PM
>>>> Subject: [AT] Other related collections question for the list
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> I collect other things than just antique tractors as has been clear from
>>>>> some of my list postings. I am curious about two closely related types 
>>>>> of
>>>>> collections other list members might have. Ephemera related to farm
>>>>> machinery (in other words old advertising covers and postcards and
>>>>> pictures
>>>>> and brochures related to the machinery) and postcards and covers that 
>>>>> are
>>>>> rural/historical in nature - i.e. related to the machinery because it is
>>>>> from the periods of the machinery that interests us and is from areas
>>>>> where
>>>>> the machinery was used. Do others accumulate such items? I know that the
>>>>> pictures and brochures are of interest to some on the list from past
>>>>> posts,
>>>>> but what about the other items?
>>>>>    What brought this to mind is that I am trying to put together an
>>>>> exhibit for our historical museum of the historical towns/rural post
>>>>> offices/rural gathering places that had post offices in our county in 
>>>>> the
>>>>> past. I think our county is typical of many around the country in that
>>>>> today
>>>>> there are only 4 post offices (in the two cities and the two small
>>>>> unincorporated "towns" that still exist here), but that historically 
>>>>> there
>>>>> have been roughly 39 post offices depending on how it is counted. Like
>>>>> much
>>>>> of today's midwest, there was a migration away from the homesteads that
>>>>> populated the hilly and mountainous parts of our county and while those
>>>>> parts of the county lost most of their population, the city grew and 
>>>>> grew
>>>>> and grew to where over 65% live in the city limits of the county seat 
>>>>> and
>>>>> easily 80% live in its sphere of influence.
>>>>>    My personal interest is not limited to just this county or even
>>>>> California in these covers and postcards and occasionally I come across 
>>>>> or
>>>>> someone gives me these kinds of items from all sorts of places and they
>>>>> are
>>>>> really interesting. Are they interesting to others on the list?
>>>>> 
>>>>>         Grant Brians
>>>>>         Hollister,California Vegetable, Fruits and Nut farmer
>>>>> 
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