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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 310159, member: 55&quot;]This does look old enough to be Victorian, and the style of the wheels looks correct for that, roughly.&nbsp; &nbsp; I&#039;m not sure it is necessarily horse-hide; a little research shows that riding and rocking horses were often made with cow-hide. Some of them were made much later than the Victorian period - when I was a kid I had a large rocking horse with &quot;real&quot; horse-hide.&nbsp; In retrospect, it could have been cow, though.</p><p>Some online research will show a number of vintage pull or rocking horses made into at least the 1930s with real hide, and mine was new when given to me in the early 1950s.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I don&#039;t know if mine was made over a wood base, but I suspect that was likely the case.</p><p>By the way, Bronwen&#039;s link above is very informative, and indicates that horses with real hide were shown in the Sears 1912 catalog.&nbsp; OP&#039;s could certainly be older than that, judging by condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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