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Posted by Dies'l on June 01, 1999 at 19:05:07 from (216.58.4.147):
About ten years ago, an auctioneer called me to go to his auction near Howic, Quebec, just minutes from the New York border. He told me that this old feller had passed on, and in his estate auction was a HUGE pile of tractor sales literature. The dealers didn't wait for you to come in and pick up a pamphlet on tractors, they mailed them to you, unsolicited. Anyway, this old timer had put away EVERY SINGLE PIECE of literature that he had received from about 1928-1960!!! Every make was represented, and all in cronological order. The shocking part was that his family thought it was all worthless junk, and was going to throw it in the dump, but the auctioneer intervened. There were two entire pickup loads!!! The auctioneer told me that he thought I would bring it all home for no more than two hundred dollars, so I gleefully jumped in the truck on auction day and attended. I'm sure nobody was more shocked than the man's heirs when the literature (sold by the piece)brought in between twenty and thirty thousand dollars!!! BTW, for my "two hundred dollars", I brought home about one inch thickness of Massey-Harris literature!
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