Girl on a rocking horse mechanical toy made in Germany by Georg Levy about 1925

The whole is cast in two halves along the length; fastened with tongue and slot joints. It is lithographed to show a dapple grey horse on green grass with white flowers and yellow rockers with red stripes. The figure faces left and represents a young girl in an orange and blue dress with white socks and yellow shoes. It is wide eyed with blond hair. The bottom of the whole broadens out in the centre to house the friction drive mechanism, mounted between two wheels. The underside of the rockers; each end of the mechansim is filled in with wedges of green metal.
*The mark is on the lower right side just in front of the rear leg. It looks like two men at a billiards table with the letters GELY underneath.
*The subject of a girl riding a horse is quite unusual; even though the horse is a rocking horse.

GELY trademark of Georg Levy of Nuremberg; founded 1920; manufactured a wide range of novelty tinplate toys.

This mechanical rocking horse and rider is cast in two halves lengthwise; fastened with tongue and slot joints. The bottom of the whole broadens out in the centre to house the friction drive mechanism, mounted between two wheels. In an unusual depition for toys of this sort, the bright eyed rider of the rocking horse is a girl. The company that made the toy, Georg Levy, was famous for its tin plate toys. It is one of several well known twentieth century toy manufacturers based in Nuremberg in Germany. This toy is part of the Barry Joseph collection of mechanical horses which was purchased by the museum in 1994.

B.136-1994