The Waldönig (the Forest King) is dressed in a cape and wears an acorn cap crown upon his head. In one hand, a bird, in the other, his golden scepter, adorned with acorns.  There are mushrooms at his feet. The woods of this royal nutcracker are glazed in green and brown, enabling the beauty of the wood grain to subtly show through the color.

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), made by hand of solid glazed and painted woods with a bit of painted blush on his cheeks and faux fur hair and beard. The Waldönig stands about 16" tall x 6" wide x 5" deep. A fine companion in autumn and all year long. Handmade in Germany.

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