how to date a ferguson/sherman plow? is there a SN list??

Hiya!
I found an early 12B plow today, smooth cast tail wheel, beams with the divots for the coulter arms cast in, no "Ford" script. Serial number is "1505".

I'm guessing it is a 1939 plow- surely they sold more than 1505 plows that year, but did the numbers start at 0? Is there a list somewhere online that breaks
down serial numbers by year, like the tractors?

Thank You,

A four digit number plow would have been made in 1940 or later. it should have ferguson/dearborn Mi on the cross bar on the frame and cast iron A frames.

Okay -this is a brief history and my best guess as to how to date your plow ID Tag s/n. No records exist anymore on tractor and implement sales; they?re long since destroyed. Each dealer would keep a record of what and when a tractor was sold and to who but Ford Tractor has been gone since the early 1990?s and most records were destroyed as dealerships folded up long before then. The fact is that almost every N sold also had a plow sold with it, after all, what good was a tractor without an implement? The N was designed to be a 2-plow tractor, the main purpose of inventing draft control. Your early, no doubt built and sold in 1939, plow should read on the ID TAG, ?FERGUSON-SHERMAN MFG CORP, DETROIT, MICHIGAN?. I say this based on tractor production for 1939. The Ford-Ferguson 9N Tractor was released to the world on June 29, 1939 with great fanfare at Fords? Dearborn/Fair Lane estate. By December, 1939, over 10,000 units had been sold. Serial numbers were stamped for each model. For example, all 12B plows had their own s/n?s, and all 10? and 14? plows had their own numbers. So there was 10? with s/n 1505 as well as a14? with a s/n 1505. See? Thus, your plow s/n of 1505 makes it one the earliest ones made and sold. FORD was the manufacturer of the tractor, and the plows at first too, the only implement Ford ever made themselves, and the Ferguson-Sherman Corp was the distributor of the tractor and implements. That is how the famous ?handshake agreement? was set up. By 1941, the Sherman Brothers, George and Eber, had had enough of Fergusons? BS and sold out their shares and left on their own. They had known Harry from years past, having been in business with him long before the 9N days, and despised him even then. After they split, it was simply the FERGUSON MFG. CORP, Detroit, MI. I would keep, restore, and relish that early plow. 12B was the normal as plows at first were mostly 12?, with some 10? models. The 14? plow soon came after. The smooth rolling landside (tail wheel) isn?t cast, it is stamped steel. Not all plows had the 'FORD' logo cast in the mainbeam ?those actually came in 1940. Does your plow also have the original coulters and jointers? I may have a spare set to part with, unless you don?t want it and then I would be interested in buying it ?my email is open.

Tim Daley(MI)