Cast iron tractor seat

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

To start this is not dug. It actually belongs to a friend of mine and she bought it for $10.00.

How can a person tell a vintage seat from a repro ?? Any and all info is apreciated.

VPR

 

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[Two Dogs]

I can't tell you if it's a repo or not but can tell you that if it's not it would be a plow seat instead of a tractor seat. John Deere didn't make a tractor until 1918. I believe he invented the steel plow in 1837. Hope this helped a little. 2 dgs.

 

[Mackaydon]

Looks like this reproduction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-JOHN-DE...8816434QQihZ013QQcategoryZ71369QQcmdZViewItem
Don...

 

[Mackaydon]

A little research shows these repos have been on the market for at least 6 years.

 

[River Rat]

I totally agree with 2Dogs & Don...A good deal on the price and still a good conversation piece. They're all over the www.

RR

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ntage+tractor+seats&gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=en&sa=G

 

[stefen]

A great number of seats were for accessories such as plows, disks, harrows and the like, and often mistakenly referenced as tractor seats.

The seat, could in fact, be a JD casting correctly dated but used as described above.

Regardless, a $10 purchase is a good deal.

 

[nhbenz]

Not enough wear on it to be original perhaps... any of those old machines would have been in use for MANY years, and even though its just someones butt on an iron seat, it would show wear... I would think. Cool decoration though! Or, actually, I would probably swap it out with the cushy seat on my Deere... but I'm quirky like that.