For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows evil eye no tears or major dents

no tears or major dents or bends

I think they are just fantastic without them

and carved with what I assume are the initials of its maker

a slightly metallic blue around his middle on both front and back

Each and every one of them a charmer I think

For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows evil eye no tears or major dentsFor Grandma, from Allie, Christmas 1878: a very carefully pin prick drawn rocking horse, from an era when rocking horses were highly prized creatures! For me this is very much about the whole bright and proud package: the very carefully cut fancy decorative border to the cream board, and to the blue board behind it, and these perfectly tied ribbon bows at the corners, and then the note on the back, too; feels to me like the incarnate of what one (me)