Antique Germany Christmas Wooden Nutcracker (SOLD)

Antique Germany Christmas Wooden Nutcracker, credit Antiche Curiosità©

 

Large Antique Germany Christmas Wooden Nutcracker with table, cm. 46. Victorian period.

Original item. No reproduction.

 

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Antique Germany Wooden Nutcracker, credit Antiche Curiosità©

 

Large Antique Germany Christmas Wooden Nutcracker with table, cm. 46. Victorian period.

Original item. No reproduction.

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Nutcracker dolls, also known as Christmas nutcrackers, are decorative nutcracker figurines most commonly made to resemble a toy soldier. In German tradition, the dolls are symbols of good luck, scaring away bad spirits.[1][2] While nearly all nutcrackers from before the first half of the 20th century are functional, a significant proportion of modern nutcrackers are primarily decorative, and not able to crack nuts.[3][4]

Nutcracker dolls originate from late-17th century Germany, particularly the Ore Mountains (German: Erzgebirge) region.[1] One origin story attributes the creation of the first nutcracker doll to a craftsman from Seiffen.[2] They were often given as gifts, and at some point they became associated with Christmas season. They grew in popularity around the 19th century and spread to nearby European countries.[1] As the demand grew, nutcracker doll production also began on a mass scale in factories.[1]Friedrich Wilhelm Füchtner (de) (1844-1923), commonly known in Germany as “father of the nutcracker”, began the first mass production of the design (using a lathe) at his workshop in Seiffen in Saxony during 1872.[5][6][7][8]

Decorative nutcracker dolls began being popularized outside of Europe after the Second World War, when numerous American soldiers stationed in Germany came home to the United States with German nutcrackers as souvenirs.[1][2] Further popularization came from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‘s The Nutcracker, a ballet adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann‘s story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, which featured a toy soldier nutcracker.[1] The ballet, introduced to America during the mid-20th century, became a favorite holiday tradition across the United States[1] and helped make nutcracker dolls a Christmas decoration and a seasonal icon across Western culture.

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