{"id":767642,"date":"2026-09-11T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767642\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:52:09","slug":"toy-tractors-up-for-sale-to-make-room-for-more-collectables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767642\/","title":{"rendered":"Toy tractors up for sale to make room for more collectables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green, a retired building surveyor, said he had been &#8220;interested in tractors from a very young age&#8221; and initially started collecting tractor leaflets and pamphlets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Over time that collection grew, and I then decided to sell it all, but by then I had the collecting bug,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I started collecting John Deere toys instead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he built up the collection slowly including &#8220;some of the rarest models out there, including the specialist gold models&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As time went on, the collection grew and I fitted glass-fronted cabinets into my house to keep them in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I also bought from dealers based in the UK and also off of eBay and other websites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The majority of the 1:16 scale models were built by farm toy manufacturer ERTL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green, a retired building surveyor, said he had been &#8220;interested in tractors from a very young age&#8221; and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}