The crown of my tractor collection

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This is it; once the pride and job of my late-uncle, then my father's and his brothers', and now mine. This shall be the one that does not leave my hands unless I'm dead. I didn't take more than two pictures but this set is semi-pricey to come by.

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Illustration for article titled The crown of my tractor collection

My late-uncle bought it new in the early-70s (likely 1973, the then-newest tractor in the set) when first got into the whole John Deere craze after needing a riding lawn mower for his lawn after seeing my grandfather buy one for his own. He gave them to my father when he was a teen and my father gave it to me when I was about 5 or 6. These tractors have never been played it by my hands, maybe my father and his brothers played with them some due to scratch here and there and a missing sticker but not by mine. I still treasure these, one of the last mementos my late-uncle left behind, and only took them out of their collective boxes to gaze at them and clear them before packing them away.