Help dating and/or restoring this photo please

[PaulaToo]

Whew!
Great fun!

[chinakay]

Oh, nice, Paula!

[cad]

I wonder if anyone else had the same initial thought as me... isn't that a pit pony? Certainly looks too small to be pulling a coal merchant's cart and I'm certain I've seen blinkers like that on pit ponies.

[PaulaToo]

Thanks china.

I was looking at those blinkers, cad. I don't think I've seen any quite like that before.
He could be a retired pit pony, looks as though he has seen a lot of hard work in his life.

[Rabbit B]

Whew!
Great fun!

That one Paula is superb!

When I look at the original you have certainly done that one justice!  Well done!

I wonder what the man had in his hand to make the pony stand that still with head down like that!

Rabbit B 

[PaulaToo]

Well not chocolates, but something tasty for a horse, perhaps.

[Rabbit B]

Well Paula,
 
Most horses love peppermints, they had mint humbugs in Victorian England  

They certainly had sugar cones too, those were broken up into sugar lumps, not square as we know them of course!

Maybe they had got a small piece of one of those! 

But it was most likely a carrot 

Rabbit B 

[PaulaToo]

I made sugar cones for the kitchen of the Victorian Doll's House I built, Rabbit.

So THAT'S why the toy horse is always looking through the window

Agree on the carrot though. Something tough that would keep him busy and take his mind off other things.

[Rabbit B]

I made sugar cones for the kitchen of the Victorian Doll's House I built, Rabbit.

So THAT'S why the toy horse is always looking through the window

Agree on the carrot though. Something tough that would keep him busy and take his mind off other things.

Well I am blowed Paula, I have only learned about those in the last 1/2 via the usual search engine!   

It would have to be something strong smelling to make him keep his head still that long, my money is on the carrot too!

Rabbit B