POLAND, Maine — A unique collection of antique horse-drawn buggies and sleighs is hitting the auction block in Maine next week.
Poland auctioneer Jody McMorrow says he has never seen a collection quite like it.
The more than 40 sleighs and buggies from the 1800s and early 1900s were collected by Carl Huston Sr., a Lisbon Falls contractor who died last summer at age 77.
McMorrow says many of the items need work, but many show a craftsmanship not often seen these days.
They range in value from about $50 to several thousand dollars.
Huston’s son told the Sun Journal the collection is being sold because the family has no place to store it. Carl Huston Jr. says he thinks the collection helped his father connect to his youth on a farm.
After personaly knowing Mr. Huston for more than thity five years i for one can not understand how Jr. can sell what meant so much to his dad. I can’t imagine that he has no where to store these as they could use anyone of several buildings his dad left. People today do not cherish the things the way we used to. Everything is about how much money we can put in the bank ,with no respect for family heretage.I don’t believe he needs the money but maybe i am wrong.