All The Pretty Little Horses

Go to sleep you little baby

When you wake, you will have cake

And all the pretty little horses

Blacks and bays, dapples and greys

A coach and six white horses

Traditional American Lullaby

Currently there are a couple of very pretty, and highly collectible, little horses stabled in our trove. This brightly colored wooden horse is ready rock,

The seat carries the colorful elephant mark of Mengel Playthings. The company was founded  by C. Mengel as a furniture company in the late 1800s in Louisville, Kentucky, and was later operated by brothers C.C.Mengel Jr. and C.R. Mengel as C.C. Mengel & Brothers Company. Under its Playthings line, company produced a variety of sturdy wooden toys from the 1920s through the 1940s, with an emphasis on riding toys, such as rockers, carts, and wagons. The company also produced wooden boxes, doors, windows, and subassemblies for car manufacturers. It was acquired in 1956 by Kroehler Manufacturing Company.

The tiny tot riding this wheeled steed would have music wherever he (or she) goes, because this perky pony has bells on its toes (or actually encased in its metal wheels).

It was made by the Gong Bell Manufacturing Company. This company was founded in 1866 in the East Hampton, Connecticut, where it produced bells, including for early automobiles, and a variety of toys. In 1872, it was granted a patent  for “revolving chimes,” described as “a pair of cast brass gongs, mounted between two malleable iron wheels.” However, the company's wood and metal toys could not compete with the introduction of lighter and less expensive plastic in toy manufacturing and closed in the 1960s.

All posted items are for sale at Next-to-New, but things can sell quickly!

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