Our Bavarian fellow is ready for Oktoberfest or Christmas or any time of the year. He is handmade of natural finish woods and holds a beer stein in his right hand and a radish for his hops in the other. His beard and dark hair are lush faux fur. Handmade by artisans of the Christian Ulbricht Company; they've been making nutcrackers by hand in Germany's Erzgebirge Mountains, where wooden nutcrackers first originated, since 1928.

This is a working nutcracker (the lever in back operates his jaws). He stands 10" tall x 4" wide and if you swing out his tankard fully (it's adjustable), he ends up being about 3 1/2" deep. Tankard swung in? 3" deep. Handmade in Germany.

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