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These do look alike, same steel in the same places, though mine has some scraps welded to it, prior to that coat of yellow, it sat from 1981, to 2002, overgrown in some kind of brush that grows here, you could not even see it ! I set it on some wood blocks, was last pulled with a 2010 JD. I really needed a tractor back on this place, just been too long, and most of the fields are wood lots now, my excuse was, well I need a tractor to go with those discs, and it was kind of neat to have something like an implement that came from our old dealership. It was new when it came here, probably used a few times, prior to '81, then I decided to do some food plots. It had all the orginal discs until the hired fool at the horse place broke it, I had set up 2 tractors, one to plow and one to disc but the darned help became so unreliable I never got to turn those fields, got p#ssed off after a summer of putting up with idtiots and having to do their work, no time for the fields, my father let someone on the tractor with the discs, no rocks in these fields, not sure how he broke the end one off, blew the center out of it. Always a story, just an old set of disc's, but I really like this one, it works great.
Check yours, look where the axle is attached to the frame, it passes through a pipe/tube, anbd you can see the ends of those wood bearings sticking out. Hard wood bearings, impregnated with oil are supposed to be really durable, however you have to keep the grit out of em, grease apparently will hold the grit from working in the soil, not 100% sure, I always kept em greased, all the fittings were original and they each took grease, was surprised at that from sitting too long. The King of Obsolete in the great white north of Manitoba, takes the carrier rollers off all his crawlers and uses straight hard wood blocks instead, due to the snow conditions, they seem to hold up well.
Probably some long gone manufacturer, but I'd think in good shape $450-500 is fine, maybe the newer ones are better built, but about the only thing you would have to deal with on these is those wood bearings. They do a nice job, turned and disc'd this patch over 2x to break up an old garden in '04, real deep top soil, made a nice seed bed, used rye straw for mulch, grass germinated, then the next spring the rye came up from all the seed in the straw, had a cover crop and never new it, the grass came out strong, no weeds at all. 
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