Ulbricht Nutcracker - Mouse King second LIMITED EDITION

Cheap Ulbricht Nutcracker - Mouse King second LIMITED EDITION Review

Ulbricht Nutcracker - Mouse King second LIMITED EDITION Feature

• 19 inches tall
• Topped with a gold finished crown with orbs
• The Ulbricht tradition has been passed down for 300 years
• Painstakingly hand-painted so no two are exactly alike
• Hand-crafted in Germany

Ulbricht Nutcracker - Mouse King second LIMITED EDITION Overview

The Ulbricht Mouse King Nutcracker stands 19 inches tall and is a limited edition piece.
He wears a royal purple cape, a intricate detailed purple vest and purple pants with lace at the bottom. He is topped with a gold crown with orbs and holds a silver sword in his hand.

Product Details

Standing 19 inches tall, the Ulbricht Limited Edition Mouse King Nutcracker is a fantastic piece! He is wearing regal clothing in vibrant colors which captures the eye. He holds a silver sword in his hand and wears a beautiful gold crown on his head. His cape is a royal purple with gold lining with lace along this neck. He is truly a collector's item! With only 5,000 made, he is sure to be desired by all avid collector's.



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 traveling 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-based company. Otto Ulbricht had to



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