For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows animal carving then players alternately try to

then players alternately try to lift and extract pieces without disturbing any others

which is a bit brittle

gouache on paper

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

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

For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows animal carving then players alternately try toFor 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)