Wooden kids toys such as the rocking horse continue to be very popular nowadays. Providing your children with quality built wooden children’s toys will instill in them the love for the feel and smell of wood toys.
Rocking horses in the USA
There was no doubt that British rocking horses or, more accurately, English rocking horses led the world. Ironically though, it was an American who was responsible for one of the most significant advances in design: in 1877, P.J. Marqua of Cincinatti, Ohio, patented the safety stand.
Hitherto, all rocking horses had been mounted on bow rockers. Marqua’s design responded to both safety and practical concerns. The safety or swinger stand, on the other hand, provided a fixed static frame on which the rocking horse swung on swing irons.
English makers quickly saw the potential for this new style of rocking horse and London solicitor Herbert Haddon was granted a British patent in 1880. Over the next 30 years, the rocking horse on a safety stand rapidly became the preferred form.
Today, rocking horse makers like The Kensington Rocking Horse Company do offer traditional rocking horses on bow rockers. This style of rocking horse does have an undeniable elegance.
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