For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows amateur art Really charming all the way

Really charming all the way around and quite a special feeling one

I've used a magnifier to confirm that the flowers at the center of this scrapbook page are indeed done in watercolor--so finely it is quite difficult to imagine how

21" long with post

1920s-30s I think

For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows amateur art Really charming all the wayFor 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)