1960’s Vintage MOBO Painted Tin Plate Rocking Horse
Price: $189.67 VAT excl
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Description:
1960’s Vintage MOBO Painted Tin Plate Rocking Horse. Classic pressed metal rocking horse by MOBO. MOBO started its journey with David Sebel a Russian who emigrated to England at the beginning of the 20th Century, and set up in partnership as a wheelwright in East London. The business was successful and as they grew, they expanded and Harry pioneered a new level and quality of British made toys. Manufacturing techniques developed in the war helped fuel an innovative ‘ride on’ Bronco horse powered by a quite sophisticated mechanism based on bicycle gears. The mechanism took a number of years to fully develop and was patented, the prototype clay body was sculpted by the RA artist Charles Morewood. The genius behind their toys was the mobility, ride on horses used the child’s body movements to mechanically power the toy horse along, pushing up and down on the stirrups propelled the horse. MOBO was famous for quality steel toys and is one of our favourite makers. The listing is for the horse as shown. It is sold as a stunning decorative object only. DO NOT use as a toy as it does not comply with current safety regulations and is not safe to ride on.
Workshop Report:
Our workshop team inspect every product and carry out any needed repairs to ensure that everything leaves us serviced and maintained ready for many more years of life. All of our vintage products show the rich beauty and history of their life with the knocks and bumps of many years of use and we try to minimise restoration to keep every piece as original as possible.
