For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows amateur art dates it to prior to

dates it to prior to 1940 and corresponds to a specific master silversmith

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

The form is that of a canteen

with what appears to be “MM”  “’78” and VT

it feels to me as if it might have lived in a holy space

For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows amateur art dates it to prior 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)