832 Chestnut St, Emmaus.  A 2 1/2 story brick home structurally sound but needing complete heavy cleaning and repainting, redecorating inside.  Lots of pre-auction activity at open houses, phone calls and website hits.  23 registered bidders at the auction engaged in spirited bidding up to the $162,000 sales...

Nice late spring day?(Temp was 93 deg) saw a fine lot of well maintained trucks and dump trailers selling.  You could hear neighbors reminiscing about the many loads of grain  delivered and loads of bales weighed at Marsteller's.  The land mark silos and grain bins will be soon be gone the way of the many small farms that used to supply the grains to keep them full.  Prices realized: Timpte 42' hopper trailers $18,000 & $14,000.&...

We had 72 bidders from across the U.S. and Canada join us in the gallery via Proxibid and the internet in a lively round of bidding on original 60's Aurora and AFX slot cars and IHC farm toys.  130 lots of farm toys saw bidding up to $170 and the slot cars saw bidding to $270 on idividual pcs.  Watch for another farm toy auction in the near future.

Wow what an auction!  Temperature was at times very cold, cool, or even slightly warmer when the sun came out for 5 minutes.  We had the first ever 1 hour delay so that more parking area could be plowed.  The "Tool Man's" tent collapsed under the weight of all the snow and ice.  It was an adventure for the clerks/auctioneers and buyers trying to find all those lot # tags burried in the snow.  Through it all everyone se...

Brrr!!! it was cold!   Over 150 registered bidders from eastern PA, NJ, NY & MD endured the bitter cold & ice at Tom's Market to bid on a wide selection of nursery & greenhouse supplies and stock. There was spirited bidding on pots, planters, potting soil, nursery wagons, display coolers & Xmas tree sales equip.  Prices realized: 15,000 potted bulbs-$5,100; older forklift-$2,200; EZ Go golf cart-$950; 1,000+ p...

2007 starts with a BANG!   800-1,000 people gathered at the Hoffman farm to bid on some great dairy equipment.  The Hoffman family decided to change their farming operation and some of the best maintained equipment to sell this spring was put up for auction.  We talked to a large number of bidders from the Lancaster Co. and MD dairy regions.  Prices realized: Surge 1600 gal milk tank-$9,250; Surge 2" SS pipelin...