Smalley Corn Sheller

[Lewill2]

Well I guess hand held corn shellers are the new big dollar item to collect. Martin Donnelly sold a Smalley hand held corn sheller this weekend at his Indy Spring cataloged auction for a mere $7,245.00

So if you have one now might be a good time to sell if you can find the under bidder.

[turnnut]

 yes, there are some serious corn item collectors.

  somewhere here, I have a corn sheller book, it is amazing how many types were made, many folks thought they had a better idea,
  just like when adjustable wrenches were in the early days.

  if it wasn't for the  collectors, the auctioneers would starve. 

[Bill Houghton]

OK, another item to watch for...

[Plyerman]

There were several items in that auction that sold for WAY more than I'd expected, but that one definitely took the cake. I had no idea that corn sheller collectors had such deep pockets.

[Lewill2]

Jim Moffett wrote a great book on corn shellers. The Smalley is in his book, he states that it is a very desirable and hard to find sheller.

[rustcollector]

One thing I have come to learn over the past couple years of auctions... Things aren't always what they seem. I watched a calendar bring over $9,000, talked to the back bidder a while later and was told the last few thousand was just to run it up on the guy because he knew the guy was going home with it no matter what. I've watched a cold chisel sell for $1,900 because the left bid was "just get it", so it got run on him. Quite a few Deere wrenches have inflated prices listed in the books because of who was bidding on them at the time. I'm sure I could come up with a few other examples too. Not saying that is the case with this particular sheller, but it does make me question the legitimacy of something like this when we see it too.

[p_toad]

SWMBO and i attended any number of auctions BC*   There were always a few where we  said they had more money than common sense.



*Before Children

[lptools]

Hello, I had a guy run up a bid against me, his rationale was that if I was going to get it , that he was going to make me pay.  He felt that he had a right to do this, by virtue of throwing out the first bid.I knew my limit on the item, and that was where I stopped, and took the item home. The same guy showed up at one of my garage sales, and couldn't figure out why my prices were so high . He must have forgotten, I didn't. Regards, Lou