Ulbricht Nutcracker - Dwarf Gardener with Shovel and Onion in natural wood finish

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Ulbricht Nutcracker - Dwarf Gardener with Shovel and Onion in natural wood finish Feature

• 13.75-inches tall
• The Dwarf holds a shovel and a onion both carved out of wood
• Topped with a beehive-style wooden hat
• Painstakingly hand-painted so no two are exactly alike
• Hand-crafted in Germany

Ulbricht Nutcracker - Dwarf Gardener with Shovel and Onion in natural wood finish Overview

The Dwarf Gardener stands almost 14 inches tall and hold an onion in one hand and a shovel in the other. It is made in the natural wood finish and every one created is original. Topped with a wooden beehive-style hat and a long beard, the Dwarf Gardner is a great addition to any collection.

Product Details

The Christian Ulbricht nutcrackers are handcrafted in Seiffen Germany in the traditional German methods that have been handed down from generation to generation for the last 300 years. The Ulbricht Dwarf Gardener with shovel and onion nutcracker is one in a large collection of dwarfs created by Ulbricht. The Dwarf Gardener has a smile on his face and a joyful look in his eyes. With none exactly the same, it is a collectors ideal nutcracker!



An Ulbricht family tradition

Large deposits of silver not only gave the mountain range its name, but also supplied generations of mountain folk with their daily bread. All Ulbricht ancestors were miners - but when the ore supplies started to dwindle those living and working there had to come up with new sources of income. And so the one-time miners first turned their hand to carving and wood turning and then to running businesses.

In 1928 the time had finally come - Christian Ulbricht's father founded the company "Otto Ulbricht-Werksttten fr feine Holzarbeiten und Spielwaren (which translated would be the "Otto Ulbricht workshops for fine woodcraft and toys") in Seiffen. He used his entrepreneurial skill to blend innovative and traditional elements into something unique and the reward for this was a gold medal at the 1936 Great Exhibition in Paris for his designs of nursery clocks and a group of travelling singers (Kurrende choir).

The Second World War and the ensuing dispossession by the communist powers-that-be in East Germany brought an end to the Seiffen-bas



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