Farmer sells ‘museum’
NZPA staff correspondent London An Essex fanner found that a nineteenth century tricycle was part of a vintage harvest after he did his “spring cleaning” a little out of season. Mr David Howard watched the dust settle to make him £50,000 (?NZ115,000) richer after he sold an assortment of objects from bygone years
which littered every available corner of his farmyard. The 1890 tricycle which sold for £3700 (JNZBSOO) was among the collection from a “family obsession” for picking up bargains which had turned his place into a museum. When Mr Howard discovered his “church farm” at Stebbing, Essex, had found its way into guide books and he had become the unwitting caretaker of a tourist
attraction — to the hindrance of real harvest time — he decided everything had to go. According to the “Standard” newspaper, the biggest draw at the farm’s auction was the collection of vintage bicycles. “Threepenny farthings” went for a total of £2706 (SNZ62OO) through an agent to an Irish dealer who apparently rides everywhere on them.
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Press, 27 September 1983, Page 4
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