Farm Toy Show Scheduled For Lancaster
Over 1000 farm toy collectors
will convene at the Lancaster
Mennonite School on Saturday,
October 18th. Persons will attend
from all along the east coast of
U.S. and Canada and as far west as
lowa. This is the fourth year for
this show and it has grown to
become the largest event of it’s
type in Eastern United States.
Featured will be over 130 tables
set-up with toy farm tractors and
equipment of all brands; some will
be for display only while other
tables will offer toys, repair parts,
collector guides, and magazines
for sale. The show opens at 8:30 am
and remains active till about 2:30
pm. An admission is charged.
Seminars on “Restoring Farm
Toys" by Dr. Douglas Karke of
Geneseo, New York will begin at
2:30 pm. A consignment auction of
500 older farm toys will begin at
5:30 pm and last well into the
evening.
Farm toy collecting is a
relatively new hobby that started
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among mid-western farmers and
farm equipment dealers about 15
years ago. In the recent five years
it has been growing in the east in
major proportions. Last year’s
show was attended by over 1000
persons from 15 states and
Canada. The hobby has it’s own
monthly magazines, the largest
having a circulation of over 10,000.
Approximately 2000 collectors live
in the eastern coastline states.
Some of the scarce farm toys of
the 40’s and 50’s have a value to a
toy collector of several hundred
dollars. Usually tractors are worth
more than equipment items. A toy
Farmall model 400 or 450 in nice
condition has a value to a collector
of over $lOO. A John Deere model
620 or 630 has about the same value
as do dozens of others.
Among the displays will be
valuable collections featuring John
Deere, International Harvester,
Sheppard Diesel, Allis-Chalmers,
Ford, New Holland, pedal tractors
(including the rare square block
John Deere “A” valued at over
$1000), trucks, small farm scene
layouts using l/64th scale toys, and
others. Two unique displays from
Lebanon County will be seventy
different pedal tractors from the
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by the Blanches. Representatives
from the “Ertl Company” of
Dyersville, lowa will be on hand to
display some of the newest farm
toy items.
Show host is Dave Nolt of
Paradise, Pa. He is a regular
writer for the hobby’s magazines
and is the manager of local farm
toy auctions. His own collection of
about 100 older “New Holland and
Ford toys will be on display for the
first time.
The Lancaster Mennonite School
is along Route 30, east of the city of
Lancaster, Pa. directly across
from “Mr. Steak” restaurant. For
more information send a stamped
self addressed envelope to: Farm
Toy Show P.O. Box 422, New
Holland, Pa. 17557. -
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