Stallion
Colour: Grey
Breed: Dartmoor
Type: Riding pony
Foaled: 1922
Height: 11.2 hands

Sire: Dartmoor pony
Dam: 4194 Sunbeam III

FOXHAMS MUNDIC 1129 Volume 18 (1922-1924) of The National Pony Stud Book
DARTMOOR SECTION
STALLIONS
FOXHAMS MUNDIC 1129  Grey   Foaled June 14th, 1922 Height 11-2
Owner and Breeder,  Mrs J. Oscar Muntz ……

Sire: Dartmoor pony, grey, 13.0
Dam: 4194 Sunbeam III, bay, 12-3 by Lord Polo 135 (chestnut, 13-2)
G. dam, Dartmoor Pony, dark bay, 12-2

I have no further information on Foxhams Mundic.
Sunbeam III was bought by Mrs J. Oscar Muntz in about 1919, and she bred two unnamed colts from her, by thoroughbreds in 1920 and 1921, followed by Foxhams Mundic in 1922 by a grey Dartmoor pony. I wonder if at a later date his credentials may have been in question?

Notes:
Mundic, sometimes called, ‘ fool’s gold,’ is “ a brassy yellow,” sulphide mineral

In an article from the field dated April 28th 1945 and entitled “30 years on the Tavey by West Country”. It states “…But early in the 19th Centry came the mining boom; copper mines sprang up all over the district, almost invariably in the river valleys, and pollution became very bad until about 1870 or 71, almost ever living thing in the Tavey was wiped out by an extra bad dose of mundic…” “…Towards the end of the 19th Centry the mining boom began to decline workings were exhausted and mines shut down; the pollution of the Tavey became less and the river began to restock itself, chiefly with sea trout from the head waters and the walkham, its principal tributary which had not been badly poisoned. By about 1890 the river swarmed with migratory trout…”

My grandfather, Claude Bertram Collier, younger brother to Imogen Collier was a very keen fisherman.