For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows animal carving but there are knife marks

but there are knife marks on it too

I'm not sure which side of this I like better

) and surely one could invent lots of things to do with them now

I'd guess this dates to the mid 20th c

For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows animal carving but there are knife marksFor 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)