Rare, early tractors from the Bainbridge Collection were the stars of the last Cheffins vintage sale of the year.
The final Cheffins collective vintage sale of 2022 grossed over £1.6million on Saturday (October 22), with an 88 per cent sale rate.
Leading the sale was the Bainbridge Collection of rare and early tractors which saw some considerable results, with a 1918 Alldays & Onions ‘General Purpose’ tractor achieving £47,168.
Similarly, a 1916 Bates Steel Mule Model C sold for £34,304 whilst a 1919 Overtime Model N sold for £45,560.
This collection offered some of the earliest and most desirable tractors from the pre-war period and attracted purchasers worldwide, with a 1918 Illinois and a 1920s Wisconsin Model E both being sold to a US-based buyer.
The Bainbridge Collection was offered alongside another 210 vintage and classic tractors, with the section grossing more than £1million in total.
Oliver Godfrey, head of the machinery department at Cheffins, said: “We have had quite the year throughout 2022, with each of the Cheffins collective sales grossing over £1million.
"This clearly shows that the market for vintage items continues unabated, with buyers looking to invest in tangible assets, particularly within today’s inflationary environment.
"We have seen that political and economic instability often brings with it an uptick in investment in all things vintage, as buyers look for nostalgic purchases which have the potential to see greater growth than more typical investments.
"This sale really meant that we finished off 2022 with a bang, with the demand for modern classics within the tractor section continuing to hold firm, but also stellar prices throughout the vehicles, motorcycles and automobilia sections.
"We have also seen an increase in international purchasers at our vintage auctions, with buyers from the USA, Australia and throughout Europe joining us both at the saleground and online.
"Next year looks set to continue in much the same vein and we already have a number of exciting vintage consignments ready for the first collective sale of 2023.
"We hopefully now have many happy buyers with sheds full of restoration projects and new pieces within their collections to work on over the winter months before we kick off the collective sales again next April.”
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The vehicle section was keenly anticipated, with a valuable 1925 Rolls-Royce Phantom with Jack Barclay bodywork, selling for £50,920 to a Lincolnshire based collector.
Another major draw at the October Vintage Sale was the RH Clark model collection. These 12 models owned by the esteemed engineering author, Ronald H Clark, saw strong prices paid, with one of the highlights being an Atkinson single cylinder three deck table engine which achieved £5,152. There was also a duplex twin cylinder horizontal mill engine which sold for £6,944 and a semi-portable engine which made £6,720.
The second part of the Roger Austin collection of fairground memorabilia, which included over 100 lots of historic gallopers, figures, clowns, rounding boards, signs and various other vintage fairground items was sold in its entirety, with many of the lots making well over their presale estimates.
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