The chest plates are also interesting - some have the thistle with Lines lettering, others have just the plain thistle.
Some horses have a mane groove and others do not. The fetlock shape also varies considerably.
According to Mullins, these 'Gamage's Celebrated Hobby Horses' may have been supplied by both G & J Lines and Wilson & Son
of Leeds but again, we really do not know. Did both makers use exactly the same pattern, carving and paint, for their Gamage's type rockers? Did Wilson ever use
Lines brackets?
The second horse ( overpainted white ), Dickens, is the same shape but has brackets stamped W 3 F Joy is 49" high ( photo thanks to Sally McGurn ), Dickens is 50" high. Neither horse has the typical deep fetlocks seen on many G&J and J&G Lines rocking horses. These two are plain carved but similar extra carved horses have been found.
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