Vintage Tin Plate Rocking and Prancing Horses

Tin plate horses: with wind-up rocking Hobby horse with…
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Tin plate horses: with wind-up rocking Hobby horse with celluloid horse's head (missing the celluloid boy rider), made in Japan, c.1934: also tin litho wind-up Prancing horse (no key), likely made by Drgm (US Zone, Germany), c. Late 1940s; both 9 cm length. (2)

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  • Celluloid - In 1864 an American scientist by the name of Parkes mixed camphor with nitrocellulose, etc. The result was what came to be known as "celluloid", the first form of plastic, and a product for which Parkes could find no use.

    Some time later when the supplies of ivory for making billiard balls were becoming difficult to obtain, an inventor produced a perfect billiard ball from a mould using "celluloid".

    Toys, dolls and other products such as combs, cutlery handles and costume jewellery made from celluloid began appearing on the market from 1913 and continued to do so until the early 1950s by which time it was superseded by more modern products due to safety concerns because it was highly flammable and brittle product.

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