An Inquiry About a Moving (Articulating) Horse and Rider

Monday, April 13, 2020

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An Inquiry About a Moving (Articulating)
 Horse and Rider

Hi Larry. 

I received an answer to your questions.However, I somehow cannot find your e-mail address to reply (my apologies). If you read this, could you please e-mail me so I can write back with the information. I received an answer to your question, and also asked and received an estimate as to the value of your fine toy.

Thanks,

Stacey

    
 Yesterday, I received an inquiry about a moving horse and rider. The writer, Larry S. wanted to know about his very old toy. I did some research, and came up with an answer to his question.  I was fortunate that Larry mentioned the name of a toy manufacturer by the name of Crandall.  No sooner had I typed in the words "Crandall toy with horse and rider", than I found lots of these toys. But sure enough up came Larry S's toy!  Below is a screen-capture of a Google search. The red arrow points to an almost-identical example of Larry's toy. But there was even a bigger surprise that you'll read about at the bottom.

My questions are: 

1) Who is the manufacturer “LS and C” of my toy?

 2) Is my toy earlier than the Crandall version? 

3) Was there a patent for this?

Thanks,

Larry

If there is anyone out there who has the answers for Larry, would you please  e-mail me,
and I will forward the information to Larry.
Thanks,Stacey

My e-mail address: Toysearcher@gmail.com

The Crandall toy was modelled from a story about a fiction character by the name of John Gilpin.

You  can read a brief story about the author. The screen-capture is from a Google search.

John Gilpin (18th century) was featured as the subject in a well-known comic ballad of 1782 by William Cowper, entitled The Diverting History of John Gilpin. Cowper had heard the story from his friend Lady Austen. Gilpin was said to be a wealthy draper from Cheapside in London, who owned land at Olney, Buckinghamshire, near where Cowper lived. It is likely that he was a Mr Beyer, a linen draper of the Cheapside corner of Paternoster Row.The poem tells how Gilpin and his wife and children became separated during a journey to the Bell Inn, Edmonton, after Gilpin loses control of his horse, and is carried ten miles farther to the town of Ware.

I mentioned at the beginning that  hhen I searched for this toy, I found a surprise with the search.
While doing several searches, I came across a post that I had written in 2014. It was about Crandall toys. I had completely forgotten about that!

Here is the link to my 2014 post about Crandall toys

Sometimes on certain days, everything just works out perfectly.

Yesterday was one of those days.

Thanks for dropping by,

and as always have a great 

part of the day or night wherever you may be.

And please take care during these most-dangerous times with the Corona Virus.

My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman

and I can always be reached at:

toysearcher@gmail.com