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A little History

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Topic: A little History

Posted By: Larry in OK
Subject: A little History
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 5:53pm

Sorting some of my uncles papers today and found the original sale reciept for the 52 CA I bought from his estate.

He bought it in January 1954 along with a "CA 2-14 plow" sale price for both was $918.00.

Also in the same stack was the original title for the unstyled 38 WC his father bought in '42.

The title for the WC will go with the tractor.

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Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 7:20pm

Hard to believe what they went for new. A G in 1948 $680.

Good Luck!

Bill Long

Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 9:17pm

You guys just have to remember that $1,000.00 took a lot longer to save back in the 40s and 50s than it does now.(unless you're me, then it STILL takes a long time to save up a little bit.LOL!).

Posted By: Wendell(OK/TX)
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2010 at 12:31am

Haven't found any of Dad's equipment receipts yet, he only bought a couple new, everything else was used and cash. But I did find a receipt from 1948 for a new servel gas refridgerator, $400.00. Run that thru an inflation calculator and it's like paying over $3000.00 for one now, ouch!

Posted By: Larry in OK
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2010 at 1:12am

My uncle mostly kept everything related to finances or taxes. We've found receipts from the local sale barn going back to the late '50s. Tickets from the Co-Op elevator for grain he sold in the '60s. If something could possible be reused or made into something else or used for parts he probably kept it.

Posted By: roughstock
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2010 at 2:12am

My friend from work just bought a cultivator and plow for his C. The original receipt for the cultivator came with.... $99.00 brand new.

Posted By: Bob-Maine
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2010 at 8:17am

My brother-in-law bid in (for me) a 1950 B at the dispersal sale by the original owner. I brought it from NY to Maine via the Canandaigua GOTO several years ago. Some time later, my Bro-in-law called to say that they had found the original receipt for the tractor and was wondering if he should throw it away or send it to me (he was trying to test my abilty to withstand "the big one". I have it now. Bob@allisdowneast

Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2010 at 8:31am

Larry I'm just curious was the '38 wc sold new in '42 or was it used? Just wondering how long some sat on the lot?

Posted By: Larry in OK
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2010 at 7:06pm

Looks like a private sale of a used tractor. The old titles are knid of confuising and it may have been a used sale from a dealer.

Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2010 at 7:16pm

Larry, That sounds like a bargain. My Dad bought his CA new in 1951. I don't have a receipt but am sure he said he paid $1400 for it with the plow,cultivator, and belly mount sickle mower. He traded the C in so that might have been the sale price and then they knocked off for whatever a 3 year old C was worth. Wish I had the paperwork.

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Posted By: Osage_Orange
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2010 at 9:24pm

It would be really cool to display that receipt with the tractor at shows.

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Posted By: Gatz in NE
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2010 at 9:55pm

It's interesting to see what inflation does to prices...

here's one online inflation calculator; there are many others.

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ - Inflation Calculator | Find US Dollar's Value from 1913-2010

Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2010 at 10:15pm

The original sales receipt for my Grandads' 1950 C with 11.2-24 tires, 80 series cultivators, 8-disc pull-harrow, used Athens disc plow(don't know what happenned to that one, drawbar is still there.), and mounted two-row cotton planters is still at their house. My grandmother showed it to me a few months ago. I think he gave less than $2,000 for all of that stuff.