The Commercial Building at the Saginaw County Fairgrounds
11350 Peet Rd., Chesaning, MI
All proceeds to be used for ongoingFair improvements.
A large collection of items dating back to late 1800’s and early 1900’s that were displayed at the old fairgroundsare included:
* Hand-made quilts, horse drawn implements and buggies, plows, cultivators, beet lifter, vintage tools and household items, old lard cans, butter churns, old oak crank telephone and much more!
Other items, either donated or consigned will be accepted but not limited to those described above and could include:
* farm machinery, lawn and garden items, power and hand tools, furniture, and other antiques.
Already consigned:
* Super MTA Farmall tractor, J.D. F145 3 bott. Plow, J.D. #10 sidemount sickle bar mower, l6’ flatrack wagon, 40’ 3 pt. spray boom. 90CC Suzuki Fat Cat motorcycle, and much more by sale time.
Please, quality saleable items only.
For more information call Bob Corrin (989)845-6414, Francis Sloan (989)845-6202 or Auctioneer Dick Bayne (989)723-8334
Dick Bayne
Auctioneer
8550 N. M-52
Henderson, MI
(989) 723-8334
Saginaw County Fair plans to auction antiques
by Jean Spenner | The Saginaw News
Tuesday May 27, 2008, 7:15 AM
Dick Bayne, 78, of Henderson and of Dick Bayne Associates-Auctioneers of Henderson, along side Fred Clark, 67, of Hemlock, points to a vintage Cosendai Cleaners dry cleaning carriage at the Saginaw County Fairgrounds, 11350 W Peet Road in Chesaning. The carriage, along with other antiques from the fairgrounds with be up for auction on June 28.
Dick Bayne has auctioned off items for older clients, but few were as old as the Saginaw County Fair -- which had its beginnings in 1863.
Organizers are trying to determine whether anything that will go up for sale dates to that first fair in Saginaw's Hoyt Park.
"It wouldn't surprise me," said Francis Sloan, who with a few Saginaw County Agricultural Society members and other volunteers are sorting and preparing for what they call the First Annual Saginaw County Fair Auction.
The event -- at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 28, in the Exhibition Hall at the fairgrounds, 11350 W. Peet in Chesaning -- is a fundraiser for the modern-day fair, which dates to 1914, said Fred Clark, fair board treasurer.
The popular antique barn and surrounding grounds at the Saginaw fairgrounds housed an array of historical farming equipment, some sold before the move to Chesaning, Clark said.
Other things that organizers moved they have not displayed for the past half-decade. They will go on the auction block.
"The presentation of the fair has changed," Sloan said. "There's no place to display these things. They've been tossed around, covered up, stepped over. If we haven't used it in the last six years, we're getting rid of it."
Items up for auction include a butter churn, a wooden wall phone, a hand-operated pitcher pump, jugs, milk cans, log tongs, tools, kitchen utensils and wooden egg crates with lids. Larger paraphernalia include a wooden double ox yoke, walk-behind plows and other farm equipment, a Ferrell grain cleaner, The Belle City No. 9 corn cutter, glass display cases and horse-drawn transportation.
A horse-drawn delivery cart bears the name Cosendai Cleaners, from a well-known Saginaw dye works that dates as early as 1876. A July 6, 1906, explosion at the dye works at 133 N. Jefferson ranked among the worst disasters in city history at that time, with the blast lifting people from their feet a block away, Saginaw Public Libraries information shows. Six died, including the proprietors.
The fair, which moved from Saginaw six years ago, celebrates its 95th edition Tuesday, July 29, to Saturday, Aug. 2.
Organizers also are seeking donations or consignments. They retain the right to refuse donated goods.
"We want good sellable items. They don't have to be antiques," said Bob Corrin, a fair board member.
Volunteers are spearheading the effort with Dick Bayne & Associates Auctioneers of Henderson donating time. Pictures of objects for sale at the auction will go up on the business's Web site, www.dickbayne.com.
"These things have been stored inside and are in pretty nice shape," Bayne said.
While the new fairgrounds presents a more difficult challenge for properly showcasing an antique collection, it has proven a boon for exhibitors of farm animals.
"We had some 30 steers last year," Sloan said. "In the waning years (in Saginaw), it was down to about nine steers.
"Last year, we had 100-and-some pigs. Down here, they keep the animals coming."
An antique telephone is just one of the many items up for auction at the Saginaw County Fairgrounds, 11350 W Peet Road in Chesaning.
Other antiques, including a vintage Cosendai Cleaners dry cleaning carriage and other equipment will be up for auction June 28.A horse-drawn delivery cart bears the name Cosendai Cleaners, from a well-known Saginaw dye works that dates as early as 1876. A July 6, 1906, explosion at the dye works at 133 N. Jefferson ranked among the worst disasters in city history at that time, with the blast lifting people from their feet a block away, Saginaw Public Libraries information shows. Six died, including the proprietors.
