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PEOPLE WHO COLLECT CAST IRON SEATS

By Dick Leill

4505 Sugar Maple Drive, Lafayette, IN 47905, editor of "THE CAST IRON SEAT NEWSLETTER"

Pictured is Dick Leill holding a very rare Vandiver corn planter seat. Behind him, a small part of his collection.

The collecting of cast iron implement seats has become a most enthusiastic hobby of hundreds of people throughout North America and Great Britain.

Many of these "fero sedileists" are also gas engine, and/or steam engine buffs. They have their own catalog of seat pictures, names and numbers, and the buying, selling and trading of seats is going on at a feverish pace. During this past year, one seat auction at Cedar Falls, Iowa, brought in approximately $100,000. The top price for a seat was $775.00, with many going for several hundred dollars.

The "Cast Iron Seat Collectors Associati...

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