Ulbricht Limited Edition Herr Drosselmeyer Nutcracker
Item#: HN-ATI152
Price:
$339.99
29%
Product Summary
Rest assured that Herr Drosselmeyer is ready and waiting to watch over your holiday festivities this season. This limited-edition Ulbricht nutcracker, which stands 19.5-inches tall and makes a thoughtful gift that will undoubtedly be handed down from one generation to the next, is all decked out in his finest garb and ready to enjoy a party or two. Wearing a regal purple vest, his treasured pocket watch, a black cape, and a stylish top hat, Herr D. proudly shows off his own miniature nutcracker for all to enjoy.
- Specially hand-made German nutcracker
- Limited edition collection
- Vintage Ulbricht tradition dates back 300 years
- Finely detailed features like black eye-patch
- Techniques have been passed over several generations
- Each piece is exclusively hand-painted
- Height measures 19.5 in.
What's Included
Nutcracker
Description
The Story of Ulbricht
Wood-turning on lathes, the Ulbricht grand tradition, can be traced back to the small German mining town of Seiffen, in the mountains of the Erzgebirge. Records document the Ulbricht family as wood turners from the 1700s.
Otto Ulbricht, a professional wood turner who started his own business in 1928, built a new factory in 1934. After World War II, when the area became the East German Zone and private industry was taken out of the hands of individuals, Otto took his family across the border where they resettled in the Bavarian town of Lauingen, near Augsburg. Once settled, with his Erzgebirge wood-turning traditions transplanted to Bavaria, Otto began again.
When Otto died in 1968, his son Christian Ulbricht, now in charge of the family enterprise, continued those time-honored traditions. In 1978 Christian expanded his thinking, and developed a new company which he named Holzkunst Christian Ulbricht.
In the early 1990s, when East and West re-unified and Germany once again became one nation, Christian brought back to the family the factory in Seiffen begun by his father so many years ago. Today, the company operates out of both locations.
Now in its third generation, the Ulbricht family continues to produce wood-turned products of the finest quality. In addition to an extensive line nutcrackers, there are incense burners, music boxes, figurines, pyramids and ornaments geared for Christmas and Easter.
Traditions are very important to Ulbricht. Not only those that strengthen ties to the land and to family, but also those that continue the traditions of excellence in production that date back 300 years.
Dimensions & Specifications
Assembly Required
No
Brand
Ulbricht
Editions
Limited Editions
Hand Painted
Yes
Height (in.)
19.5
Material
Wood
