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Jay Liedman

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I am primarily interested in fixing up regular old tractors, but am aware many people also collect farm toys. I have picked up a couple toy
tractors that appealed to me, but it hardly counts as a "collection". What I have noticed is that many toy collectors seem to prefer toys
the are still in the original box, preferably never opened. I tend to look at toys differently, much preferring a toy tractor that some kid
has played with, and shows the resulting wear. It just seems to me that a toy that has never been played with by a child has sort of missed
its calling. The market would seem to indicate I am in the minority with that view. Anyone else have any thoughts on the new vs. used toy
issue?
 
All my toys have been played with. I don't have many. But any time I see one in a picker store if the price is right and it's been played with I will add to the collection. I ain't buying as an investment so I don't need the box
 
Not a real collector here but I've accumulated a few toys over the past 60 years. Some have definitely been played with. Right to point of destruction. And yet I save them. Like this old "Barr" tractor and trailer. It spent a lot of time in the sand tire and all weather. Dates to the early sixties. I've got a few newer tractors still in the box. Also, for some reason, I've saved most of the boxes of the toys I've bought over the past 25 years or so. Seems like they will be worth a bit too.

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I have a few thousand toy tractors but the good ones are getting to cost as much as you can buy a real implement for
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I keep most of them in boxes to protect them as much as anything
 
But you DO need a sandbox to play with them. In a couple of weeks you can play with them in the yard as long as somebody doesn't nail them with the lawn mower.;)
 
I've got some of everything. If a well worn toy is intact,I'll just leave it alone. I've restored plenty of them that were in pieces though.
 
Late 1950's and early 1960,s I worked in the factory that made the wheels that was shipped to Barr rubber. Some of the tractors also. Some models were assembled in the finishing department of the factory also.
 
I have some 'in the box' but the ones I appreciate the most are the ones that I find that need some TLC to get them 'going' again. My generous boss lets me tinker on them while on my lunch break at work. This month its a Nylint Chevy U-Haul. But there's a late model IH waiting its turn.

The question is what to do with them after they are fixed.
 
my set up is in my basement but like Randy's. Shelving and a few older cabinets that I found with doors for dust control. I got just over 300. Most are John Deere but there is other breeds in there as well. Going to take a non farmer friend of mine to the Sackett auction next saturday in Sheridan. He likes the toys and has been buying quite a few.
 
I think I've got one of about everything we had when I was a kid. Getting an itch to add another piece but had to skip a sale yesterday that had a couple hundred of all varieties.
 
I don't have so many now after I had my Auction in 1988 and sold 500 tractors . See Toy Tractor Magazine back at that time. Any way now I have a few. I buy new or played with. If I buy a new in the box the first thing I do is throw the box away. I want it on a shelf so i can look at it.. .Old Scovy.
 
I have a mix of about everything, But I like the older originals the best. Not to much into repaints and the boxes don't mean much to me either. I take them out and play with them awhile before they get packed up in the basement. No toy display room yet. Maybe someday. Here's a few we displayed some years ago at our local show.
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When I could afford to buy new I would mostly take out of box but I kept the box in good condition. A few years ago I had a collector tell me the box for a tractor I have is worth as much as the tractor is and tractor was never played with.
 
I'm with you Jay. I, too, prefer to have/see toys that have been used....BUT not destroyed.

I believe there is more value in toys that are still NIB, but they aren't appealing to me, personally. ...But then I've never been driven by money, either.

Overall, I think it's difficult to truly know what drives some folks to do what they do. At this time I seem to be collecting tractor-related pics from the web. They're easy to come by, I can find them easily without leaving home, I can open those folders and view them any time I desire, and yet they have a monetary value of ZERO. Sure makes me happy though, plus the wife also enjoys them.

So my thought is, do what you wish. If you happen to buy a collectible that's NIB and you wish to handle it, go ahead -- provided you don't mind potentially lowering the monetary value.
 
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