Sale of valuable Colliery Horses and Ponies

January 1877

January 27th – Sheffield Telegraph

Sale by Mr Harrop.

    Important Sale of valuable Colliery Horses

To be sold by auction, by Mr T Harrop, on the premises of the Denaby Main Colliery on Thursday, the eighth day of February, the following very valuable Pit horses and ponies which the company have no further use for on account of the depression of trade:

Lot 1 – Bay horse, “drummer” 15 hands

Lot 2 – Black horse, “Barker” 14 1/2 hands, 7 years

Lot 3 – grey horse, “Bob” 14 1/2 hands, 7 years

Lot 4 – Brown horse, “Jack” 14 ½ hands, 6 years

Lot 5 – Brown horse, “Charley” 14 ½ hands, 8 years

Lot 6 – black horse, “Dick”, 14 hands, 8 years

Lot 7 – black pony, “Saul” 13 hands, 8 years

Lot 8 – Chestnut pony “Jerry” 13 hands 6 years

Lot 9 – Bay pony, “Don” 12 hands

Lot 10 – Chestnut pony, “Tichborne” 12 hands

Lot 11 – Pyebald Pony, “Billy” 12 hands

Lot 12 – Grey pony, “Snowball” 12 hands

Lot 13 – Grey pony, “Tiger” 12 hands

Lot 14 – Chestnut pony, “silvery” 12 hands

The auctioneer, can with confidence recommend the above to be a lot of good and genuine

Working Horses, and will be having work

up to date of sale. Any particulars respecting the same can be had on application to

Mr Allen Ogden, at the colliery, or of the auctioneer, of whom catalogues may be had.

Sale, to commence at two o’clock.

P.S.the ponies will not be drawn out of the Colliery until time of sale

Mexborough, January 26, 1877.