[AT] Other related collections question for the list

Al Jones farmallsupera at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 20 21:14:45 PST 2011


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
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>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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