the Stone Horses factory

The Peter Stone Company was founded in 1996 and is located in the beautiful Indiana countryside village of Shipshewana, Indiana.

Stone Horses are finely finished and most are hand painted at this site. Artists travel great distances to work in this bucolic setting where oftentimes the lights in the painting studio burn into the wee hours. Fellowship among the artists and Stones are highlights as meals are shared, experimentation in technique apparent, and the whirls of horse color real and surreal typify each new creation.

"I always wanted it to be like this,"
says Peter Stone, President and founder along, with his wife Elaine, of their mutual effort.

Not only is Stone Horses the “Left Bank” of the model horse world, but also a place where live horses roam for riding pleasure and artistic study.

Stone Horses Webcasts allow collectors from all over the world to participate in special events.

Peter comes by his connection to model horses in a most explicit way: His father, Sam Stone, was the founder of the first model horse company in 1950. And for Peter who was ten at the time, model horses were the “stuff” of which dinner table talk was made.

What is unique about Stone Horses and why are they consistently sought after as valuable collectibles?

• Perhaps for some it is their limited nature.
• For others it may be that no one piece is exactly like another.
• Or is it that these horse models are as real as the horses themselves.
• Peter says, "I never get tired of looking at them."