Miniature
Rocking Horse
Eleven Hallmark miniature ornaments — the complete 10-entry Miniature Rocking Horse series (#1–10, 1988–1997) plus the 2007 Limited Edition 10-Year Reunion. Every horse sculpted by Linda Sickman. Every horse a different color and breed. Every rocker a different painted color. Dappled with red rockers. Pinto with turquoise. Grey Arabian. Appaloosa Black. Ten consecutive years, then a reunion a decade later. All eleven here.
Linda Sickman — The Artist Behind Both Rocking Horse Series
Linda Sickman has been at Hallmark since 1963 and at Keepsake Ornaments since 1975. She created the standard Rocking Horse series (QX) starting in 1981 — a series that ran through 2012. The Miniature Rocking Horse series (QXM) launched in 1988 as Sickman's miniature-format companion to her own standard series, running for 10 consecutive years through 1997. The Amazon listing for the 1992 #5 entry confirms: "Series: Miniature Rocking Horse. Artist: Linda Sickman." In 2007 the reunion entry brought her miniature horses back for one more limited edition ride, confirming the series' enduring appeal.
A Different Horse Every Year — The Complete Miniature Rocking Horse Decade
The Miniature Rocking Horse series launched in 1988 as Linda Sickman's QXM companion to the standard Rocking Horse series she had begun in 1981. The premise is elegant and precise: each year, a rocking horse in a different color and breed combination, mounted on rockers painted in a complementary color. The 1988 founding entry is a Dappled horse on Red Rockers. The 1990 entry is a Pinto on Turquoise Rockers — the most visually striking rocker color in the series. The 1991 Grey Arabian returns to Red Rockers; the 1992 Brown moves to Green Rockers; the 1993 Appaloosa Black back to Red. Each rocker color choice is as deliberate as the horse color — the contrast between horse and rocker defines each entry's visual identity as much as the horse's breed.
The series ran ten consecutive years, concluding in 1997 with the Grey horse with Black Mane and Tail (#10, QXM4302). Then in 2007 — exactly ten years after the final entry — Linda Sickman returned with "Rocking Horses 10-Year Reunion" (QXE9017), a Limited Edition event ornament bringing the miniature horses back for a reunion ride. The QXE prefix confirms its limited edition status. All ten original entries plus the 2007 reunion are here at Already Christmas — eleven miniature rocking horses, one decade and one reunion, all by Linda Sickman.
🐴 1998–2006 · Ten Years · The Stable Is Quiet · 2007: The Reunion
Tips for the Complete Collection
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01Display in numbered sequence — the color parade reads best from #1 through #10. The Miniature Rocking Horse series is designed to be displayed in order: Dappled/Red (#1) through Grey/Black Mane (#10). In sequence the changing horse colors and rocker colors create a visual rhythm — the red rockers returning in entries #1, #4, #6, #9; the green rockers appearing in #5 and #8; the unique turquoise of #3 and tan of #7 breaking the pattern. The full color story of the series is only visible in sequence.
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02These are QXM miniature ornaments — display where the rocker color details can be seen up close. At miniature scale, the contrasting horse and rocker colors that define each entry are the detail that distinguishes them. On a full-size tree from across a room, these distinctions will be invisible. Cluster all 10 on adjacent front branches or display on a dedicated miniature tree where the Pinto's turquoise rockers, the Appaloosa's red rockers, and the White horse's tan rockers can actually be appreciated.
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03Display the 2007 Reunion as an 11th horse, set apart from the original 10. The "10-Year Reunion" is a coda to the series — not a numbered entry but a Limited Edition celebration. Position it slightly separated from the #1–10 sequence as a visual acknowledgment of its special status.
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04All 11 Miniature Rocking Horse Hallmark ornaments — the complete #1–10 series plus the 2007 Reunion — are at Already Christmas. Ten horses in ten color combinations across ten years. One reunion ride. All Linda Sickman. All here.
Every Miniature Rocking Horse Hallmark Keepsake
Ten horses, ten color combinations, one reunion. Click any to shop.
Linda Sickman started the standard Rocking Horse series in 1981. In 1988 she started it again in miniature — a dappled horse on red rockers, QXM format, the first of ten. The Pinto on turquoise in 1990. The Grey Arabian on red in 1991. The Brown on green. The Appaloosa Black on red. The White on tan. The Brown Spotted on green. The Spotted on red. The Grey with black mane and tail in 1997, the series complete at ten. Then in 2007, exactly ten years later, the reunion. Eleven miniature rocking horses. Ten color combinations. One decade and one reunion. All Linda Sickman. All here.
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