Toy horse

The manufacture of toys started in the Turku penitentiary, Kakola, at the turn of the 1870–1880s. Small toys were the right size to be made in the small cells where prisoners were put in solitary confinement at the beginning of their sentence. Made in the late 1870s, this wooden horse stands on a wheeled wooden platform. The tail and mane are real dark grey horsehair. The horse is wearing a leather halter and reins.