Thursday, June 23, 2011

Civil War collectibles - past life as Union soldier inspired him to become a collector | stargazette.com

Horseheads optician says past life as Union soldier inspired him to become a collector | Star-Gazette | stargazette.com:
"Buchanan, who lives in Columbia Cross Roads, started collecting Civil War items in the early 1970s.

The first piece he acquired was a Union soldier's belt plate, for which he paid a collector $11.

The collection grew over the years: photographs, guns, swords, cartridge boxes, uniforms, along with letters and documents. Three of his photos were used in the Ken Burns documentary, 'The Civil War.'

A favorite item is a document written by Charles H. Crane, the U.S. surgeon general at the time, to all the prison camps in the North.

Labeled 'Instructions Concerning Prisoners of War Sick in Hospital,' it spelled out the rations they were to receive."


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Freud too, as Jacqueline Yallop reminds us in her interesting book, was both a collector and interested in collecting. He collected antiquities and described intense collecting as a form of fetishism.
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"12th annual KICD Antique Tractor Ride... based out of Estherville, with the first leg going northwest of town to Petersburg then west to Spirit Lake and back to Estherville. Saturday's jaunt goes northerly to Ceylon then around area lakes and back to Estherville."


The Blasses have gone on a number of tractor rides and shows, including the one at Prairie Village in Madison, S.D. and at the Amana Colonies where they go every Father's Day.
Randy is national secretary of the Minneapolis-Moline Collector's Club, a 900-member organization.
He said the Minneapolis, Moline Tractor and Twin City Tractor companies combined in 1929. The Minneapolis-Moline was made in Minneapolis until 1971 when the company was bought out. The parts from Moline and Oliver tractors then went into making White tractors which later became part of Agco.


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