auction paris KY wow at the driving stuff

[Tamara in TN]

http://www.biedermanbrokerage.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_expose&task=view&Itemid=28&album=128&photo=3


maybe this link will run the slideshow...

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[RedMare01]

I just posted a link to the catalog over on the breeders forum. There are a lot of nice Holsteiners in the auction too. Catalog is http://biedermanbrokerage.com/joomla/wileyfarm.pdf

Caitlin

[Tamara in TN]

I just posted a link to the catalog over on the breeders forum. There are a lot of nice Holsteiners in the auction too. Catalog is http://biedermanbrokerage.com/joomla/wileyfarm.pdf

Caitlin


hi Caitlin,

I could not get the PDF to open so I reposted the slide show...did you see the horse drawn glass hearse?? wow just wow...:eek:

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[RedMare01]

I did...interesting, but yet a bit macabre. I wonder how old it is?

Caitlin

[Tamara in TN]

I did...interesting, but yet a bit macabre. I wonder how old it is?

Caitlin


I'm thinking the 1920-30's...god it really is beautiful...

[DebbieB]

Does anyone know the maker of the carriage on slide 18?
I have one that looks very similar (mine doesn't have as much bird poop and dust) with 2 springs in the back instead of one, and I'd like to have some more history on it.
Please, pretty please, if someone knows something please pass it along.

[Thomas_1]

There's a 2 or 3 nice vehicles that could do with buying to restore. But by gosh they'd take a lot of expertise and time and money to bring back to serviceable good condition.

Those who commented on the hearse. Haven't you seen mine??

[SomethingDazzling]

I'd be interested in the Kuhnle, but I agree that the hearse looks cool. Maybe a horse if they went cheap enough(I do not need another horse, I do not need another horse...). I have plans that weekend though, so I cannot go. Who's going?

[2ndyrgal]

I might go, farm equipment and a bigger head to head trailer. Might be deals to be had. Fortunately, most of those horses have ovaries which leaves them out of the purchase possibility for me.

[DebbieB]

Those who commented on the hearse. Haven't you seen mine??

Thomas, I don't see funerals listed on your website, just lessons and weddings. Which one do you use the hearse with? :D

[Thomas_1]

It's exceptionally rare that I do a horse drawn funerals now. I've never actually done them commercially as such.

The last time I turned out for a "real" funeral was for a very dear friend who was a driver. Time before was my own mother and that was an awesome spectacle with over 15 driving turnouts. I have however used the hearses quite frequently for film work and that's why I've kept them.

[MySparrow]

Thomas, while you're digging out your hearse photos to show us, would you please attach again the marvelous photo of your equipage heading up Lindisfarne?

Thanks!

Dale

[MySparrow]

Hope I'm not diverting the thread -- I've been to two horse-drawn funerals, one here and one in the UK. Both were deeply moving tributes to lifelong horsemen, and they were as different as it was possible for them to have been. In the UK (near Litchfield) it was a horse-drawn bier; here, it was a farm wagon drawn by matched Percherons.

That hearse in Kentucky is one of the best-cared-for vehicles on offer. Wonder if someone will buy it, and what they will do with it? And I wonder about the significance of the farm name on the top?

[Tamara in TN]

Time before was my own mother and that was an awesome spectacle with over 15 driving turnouts. I have however used the hearses quite frequently for film work and that's why I've kept them.


would it be rude to ask about pics of your mothers funeral? she must have been quite the horse woman to have metted 15 turnouts and I bet they were fabulous

here when a teamsters dies, his wagon team and his own wagon often carries the casket while a good friend or the best driver of the sons drives

(now these are not carriage horses or a fancy hearse like yours but heavy teams and/or wagon train team or mules)

most of the family will follow on foot to the cemetery from the church as it is rarely very far and sometimes a buggy with the widow if she is elderly will ride behind....but it is a beautiful sight from the old days and you know the old drivers would have loved to see it....

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[Thomas_1]

Dad trained race horses and was a master of foxhounds. Mum was a joint master before she had me and showed hackney horses in harness all her adult life.

I'll have a dig about for photos - they're old fashioned proper ones, so I might have to do some scanning. We didn't take any ourselves but there were a few taken by local press and also for the equestrian magazines, BDS etc and which I was sent.

[Greymeadows Farm]

Results of the sale driving equipment (the horse results are listed in a thread in the breeding section)

9 Passenger stage coach - $5000

Early drop front phaeton - $300

Commercial hitch wagon - $1750

Hearse - $9000

Civil War era park phaeton - $800

Coal box buggy - $250

Repro cut under auto top surrey - $2000

Meadowbrook cart w/hydraulic brakes - $400

Breaking cart from Rabers cart shop - $400

Meadowbrook cart with broken shaft - $450

Kuhnle completion vehicle - $6100

Kuhnle w/ tear on seat - $2400

Houghton jog car - $285

unlisted Meadowbrook cart - $1500

[goodhors]

Sounds like most of the stuff went kind of low.

Thank you for posting the prices, I wondered what they would fetch at the sale. The hearse was kind of plain, "country style" from what the photo showed.

Our local funeral home has a horse drawn hearse available among their services. Has given a lot of folks their "last ride". Rosa Parks the Civil Rights notable, was among them. It is more fancy than the model in the sale, but not among the REALLY elaborate ones. I think it is a Kimball from Chicago.

Just kind of far for us to run down to the sale and watch them go. Would have liked to have one of the Khunle's.

We DID sell one of our vehicles yesterday! Now have room to comfortably park things in the carriage shed!