Ulbricht Nutcracker - Basket Maker natural wood finish

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Ulbricht Nutcracker - Basket Maker natural wood finish Feature

• 16 inches tall
• The Ulbricht tradition has been passed down for 300 years
• Wooden hat accented with a small length of rope
• Painstakingly hand-painted so no two are exactly alike
• Hand-crafted in Germany

Ulbricht Nutcracker - Basket Maker natural wood finish Overview

The Ulbricht Basket Maker Nutcracker stands 16 inches tall and is done in the natural wood finish. He wears a apron around his waist and carries a couple woven baskets in his hand. He has short chopped brown hair and beard. Painstakingly hand-painted so no two are the same.

Product Details

Standing 16 inches tall, the Ulbricht Basket Maker Nutcracker is done in the natural wood finish. The perfect piece for any crafts person. Beautifully hand-crafted from solid wood in Germany, it is painstakingly hand-painted so no two are exactly the same. The Basket Maker wears an apron tied around his waist and carries a couple intricate woven baskets in his hand.



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-based company. Otto Ulbricht had to flee to the west with his family. He soon set up the company again



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