Horse-drawn casket wagon

I think this is so cool. I would love to have something like this as a project and one day a museum piece in the professional car section. I see horse-drawn hearses all the time, but this is the first surviving casket wagon I've ever seen. If you look carefully, you'll see a single roller in the back door opening and a letter "F" on the window beside the driver. And I'm assuming those are coach lamp posts behind those windows. With the holidays and my birthday next month, if anyone's looking for a gift idea....

Antique horse drawn hearse - $3000 (Tamworth)
Date: 2012-11-16, 2:20PM EST
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Antique horse drawn hearse dating back to 1860-1870. Wheels and undercarriage like new. Have pole and sharves.

Buying it is the easy part. Keeping the two horses fed, sheltered, and shoed is going to be the expensive part. Then you have all that horse dung to dispose of.

Yeah but Paul if you got a neighbor that walks their dog and doesn't pickup after them just walk your horses over to their yard......

nice team

good looking morgan draft horses. dad had a real horse drawn hearse that he displayed at the fh. never touched it for use for a funeral but once. rented a team and driver(his horses) and cemetery was 3 miles from fh. rt. wheel came off enroute, casket shifted and broke the glass. a real mess blocking traffic and made the news. got a coach from the garage and continued funeral finnaly. we got the wagon back to the fh and he repaired it and sold it to a fh in tennessee and the truck hired by the new owner turned over on the way and it was totaled. wish i had it now. got a bw picture somewhere...