[AT] Other related collections question for the list

[Joe Hazewin]

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 

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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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