Antique Hand-painted White Wooden Horse, Presumed SA. Smith vintage dansk and then 1917

and then 1917

One might describe this handmade creature homely

Beautiful warm dry wood patina to the horse

the smaller (which I am just throwing in with the other) is locked and would need a Chinese key (which looks like a large

as well as numbers 1 through 9

Antique Hand-painted White Wooden Horse, Presumed SA. Smith vintage dansk and then 1917I believe this wonderful horse was most likely made by S. A. Smith of Guildford, VT (founded 1872) and that it once stood on a wheeled platform, perhaps with a companion, and likely pulled a cart behind it. It is definitely an old one, which I for one am glad now stands alone and as if on short stilts! Fabulous old creamy white paint, black horsehair for the tail, red oil type cloth adhered around the neck, and black painted details including those