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We know much more about toys in the 1860s than ever before, largely due to the appearance of the CDV proving a huge increase in the number of images. The hobby horse which was a very popular toy for youngrb boys. Its prevalence os probably overstated because many studios had them for photographing children. We see large nunbers of hobby horse images in the 1860s. There were not many such images in the 1850s, but we certainly see them in the 1860s. They were probably less common in actual homes, although we suspect most midde-class children had them. Here we have a good example (figure 1). In this case the boy has a drum, anither popular toy for boys.
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