HOW TO IDENTIFY A SWEDISH DALA HORSE by EUROTREASURE SWEDEN

•  Eurotreasure found this Dala horse at a special antiques sale in Skane Sweden and from preliminary inspection could identify it as probably a Vattnas and early, turn of the 19th to 20th century.
  How does one identify a Dala horse when you acquire one, or are about to acquire one?
• The answer is that you use every available resource you have, asking experts, checking reference books and of course searching the internet.
  After locating very similar photos in reference books and determining it to be indeed Vattnas, judging by the over all shape and remaining decorative elements, a search on the internet from a very helpful Swedish Dala horse website, it was possible to confirm the shape and a most exacting identifying mark, being the chest markings.
  One can see for themselves by comparing the eurotreasure photo of acquired Dala horse followed by a screen shot from an important research website.