Dealer sign at auction

J.Wondergem · Feb 21, 2022

This sign was a neon sign in a crate with a crack in the corner. Came from Paul Patin a M-M dealer on a farm outside of Sand Lake Mi. from the 50s where I was a kid. Saturday, at auction it went for $23,000. I believe it went to Texas.

NY 986 · Feb 21, 2022

M-M signs have to be extremely rare in 2022. Closing in on 50 years when those signs were pulled in favor of White Farm
Equipment IF White decided to keep a given dealer. That is a lot of time for things to be lost or damaged. I heard stories from
back during the 1980's that lots of dealers pitched things into a dumpster after they closed or lost their franchise. More often
than not the mood was very poor and nothing was thought in terms of preserving things for the future.

Jason1Pa · Feb 21, 2022

It is really amazing at the value some of
these signs go for. I love old signs as I'm
sure most people do,but OUCH some must
really be obsessed with them. However it's
good that they are be preserved and a lot
of times being used on display in someones
collection. Much better then sitting in a
warehouse someplace collecting dust. Just
hard to imagine that a sign is worth way
more then what the tractors are.

rrlund · Feb 21, 2022

I talked to an old dealer in Kentucky who told me they buried all of their Oliver signs in a landfill. He wasn't too happy anymore that they'd done that either. I remember when I was a kid, my dad and three other guys had taken a school bus up north in the late 40s,took the body off the frame and made a cabin out of it. I still remember plain as day that they took a porcelain round Oldsmobile sign, cut it in half and used the pieces to fill in the rear wheel wells after it was sitting on the ground. They painted the whole bus, sign and all, an awful pinkish purple color. By 1960 or so, the paint had pretty much come off the sign halves.

donjr · Feb 21, 2022

Oliver Outboard sign went for $8600 at a sale I was at about ten years ago. I never knew Oilallover made boat motors!!!!

rustyplow · Feb 21, 2022

Traditional Farmer · Feb 21, 2022

I have a lighted Oliver dealer sign from the Oliver dealer Farm Service at Lottsburg VA.Bought it for $50 back in the 80's had to get it down off their building,its been over in the barn ever since keep saying I'm going to hang it up on the side porch.

Dealer sign at auction

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