April 23, 2024
German Erzgebirge Nutcracker / Danish Guard +Nice+
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If you ever go to Copenhagen, you will see the Danish Royal guard in this uniform. A really nice piece from the Seiffener Volkskunst workshop of recent vintage. Would qualify as mint except that his upturned sword has broken off at the hilt. Also some of the gold paint on the edge of his epaulets has worn. Seiffener volkskunst is one of the oldest nutcracker workshops in the Erzgebirge, and produces time honored designs. Check out my other auctions! I am the former owner/proprietor of Drosselmeier's, Inc., a website that specialized in nutcrackers, smokers, and a large assortment of Christmas and Easter decorations handcrafted in Germany's Erzgebirge mountains. As a German speaker, I travelled to the Erzgebirge many times, came to know the craftsmen and the workshops, many of which were family businesses that went back several generations. I also became a knowledgable collector, studied examples of nutcrackers in local museums and private collections in and around Seiffen, the village that is the heart of the Christmas craft tradition. My personal collection was featured on Martha Stewart's television show on December 23, 2002, (see photo) and I have written about nutcrackers or have been featured in such publications as County Living, Better Homes and Gardens' Holiday Celebrations, and German Life. I closed the web site two years
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