The best-known nutcrackers bring to life, through wood and paint, the colorful, fierce-looking, bearded soldiers from E.T.A. Hoffman’s 1816 story, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,&#8… ...

We are going to the Erzgebirge to buy handmade nutcrackers. Die Nussknacker wurden in den fünfziger Jahren in den USA sehr beliebt. The nutcrackers became very popular in the US in the 1950s.

Also hand-crafting highly detailed wooden nutcrackers (among the bunch: a butcher, blacksmith and even a hot dog vendor) in Germany’s famous region of Erzgebirge for more than 80 years, the ...

By Lori Verderame For years, my 92 year old Father collected wooden nutcrackers. He amassed a colorful collection of figural nutcrackers mainly from America, Italy, and Germany. They were fun to co… ...