Tracy Kochanski                                                                                                     Westfield, MA

Gypsy

                                      Before                                                                             After

When this horse came to me I was told that it had been brought over from Germany

in the late 1800's by a relative of the client. 

It was missing an ear, an eye, part of a hoof and most of the tack.

The head had also been broken off at some point and poorly repaired.

      I started by adding wood to re- carve the missing portion of the hoof.

      I made a new leather ear to match the existing one and added a new glass eye. The client wanted to keep the remaining original yellow glass eye in place.

Next came repairing / remaking the tack and adding a new horsehair mane & tail.

When it came time to paint, we chose a traditional dapple grey typical of rocking horses at the turn of the century

The wheeled stand was in great shape and needed no repair.

Originally the wheeled platform would have been mounted on bow rockers so that the horse could be ridden

as a rocking horse or pulled along behind.

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