FIRST-HAND BITS OF STABLE LORE 



price about as follows: brougham, $1,200 to 

 $1,500; Victoria, $800 to $1,200; runabout, 

 $300 to $450 ; gig, $450 to $600 ; coach, 

 $2,200 to $2,700; hansom, $1,000 to $1,200; 

 spider, stanhope, or demi-mail phaeton, $800 

 to $1,200; carryall, or depot wagon, $250 to 

 $600. Excellent vehicles may, however, be 

 obtained from builders of lesser note for fully 

 thirty per cent less. Second-hand carriages in 

 good repair will average about one quarter the 

 price they bring new, and many capital bargains 

 may be obtained by visiting the auction rooms, 

 taking care to buy closed vehicles in the spring, 

 and open in the fall, for the reason that the 

 opposite condition of the seasons makes them 

 cheapest then. 



Harnesses average about like the appended 

 figures: brougham single, $150, double, $300; 

 hansom, $80 ; four-in-hand (park), $400 ; road, 

 $175; runabout, $85; tandem, $200; road 

 harness, $35 to $150; all these prices vary- 

 ing according to the maker's reputation, to the 

 mounting (whether brass or silver), and to the 

 extra ornamentation and finish. Second hand 

 they bring prices according to condition, but 

 averaging about thirty per cent of the original 



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