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My Mother inlaw has a 1926 Niclous and Shepherd tractor made by Lawson 20-40 and a International hay press.Both are restored.She wants to sell them and is interested in what they are worth.We live in Canada.

and where is that ?im in alberta canada.

(quoted from post at 18:41:59 07/19/23) My Mother inlaw has a 1926 Niclous and Shepherd tractor made by Lawson 20-40 and a International hay press.Both are restored.She wants to sell them and is interested in what they are worth.We live in Canada.

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e live in Ontario Canada

Ontario is a big place. Goes from the most densely populated part of Canada, to so remote that even hermits get lonely. Trucking is going to make a huge difference in the value of the equipment. The farther the buyer has to haul it, the less they are going to be willing to pay.

My feeling on the subject is, neither of those machines are something that you see for sale, or sold, with any sort of regularity so establishing a price is going to be tough. It's not like you can go back to last week's auction results, or last year's, maybe not even in this century...

Only certain people are going to be interested in these machines, and in paying top dollar for them. The wider you can "spread the net" the better chance you will have at getting them sold. You're not likely to do well asking for top dollar in the local newspaper's classifieds, or on Craigslist, or on Kijiji (Canadian version of Craigslist).

The best bet for top dollar would be to have the equipment hauled to a large collector tractor auction such as Mecum or Aumann, but that also means "importing" the machines into the States, which is more time, and time is money.

Sending the equipment away for auction is a huge risk. She may not end up with anything at all time hauling costs and commissions are taken out. At that point she would have been money ahead selling for $100 each, and pocketing the cash.