RAVENNA, Ohio — McGuire Auctioneers held a surplus auction for the Ravenna School District April 2 with 360 registered bidders and more than 600 people in attendance.
Bidders included a movie production company, collectible traders, and souvenir hunters.
Highlights were a Hobart mixer that brought $1,080; a Hobart cooler that sold for $1,130; and fryers that went for $460 each.
Old shop stools sold for $80, oak office chairs for $100 and Logan shop lathes sold for $500.
A hand-powered coal cart that once fed the high school boilers sold for $300 to an out-of-state buyer.
The auction lasted over five hours with two rings selling for much of the day.
(Auction Roundup is a free weekly feature offered by Farm and Dairy. Any auctioneer interested in submitting information from a recent farm, household, real estate or antique/collectible auction that was advertised in Farm and Dairy should e-mail editorial@farmanddairy.com, fax 330-337-9550 or call 800-837-3419. Auction reports should be brief and are subject to editing based on available space.)
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