(ILLINOIS) Stop Thief 100 Reward Stolen from the Undersigned

Sale 2533 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 281

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(ILLINOIS.) Stop Thief! $100 Reward! Stolen from the Undersigned . . . One Bay Gelding. Illustrated broadside, 13 x 9 1/4 inches; minor foxing and edge wear, a few manuscript calculations in right margin. Decatur, IL: Gazette & Chronicle Print, 20 November 1865

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The horse was stolen from Henry L. Badgley of Belleville, IL, and was described as "7 years old, 16 hands high, both hind feet on right side white to pastern joints, blind in left eye, small star in forehead, small snip on nose." The poster was issued by J.O. Sloan of the Great Western Detective and Horse Insurance Company, which branded its insured horses with "H.I. Co." on the left fore hoof.