Hand-Crafted Wooden German Miner and Angel
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These figures are hand-crafted wooden items from the small studio of Christian Werner in Erzgebirge, Germany. It is in this southeastern corner of Germany that so many traditional Christmas figures have found there birthplace. After mining was no longer profitable, the men of this mountainous German area turned their efforts to the production wooden toys and decorative Christmas items. Yet the figure of the miner and his protector the angel remained, even to this day, part of the tradition of t ...click for details
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The Bremen Town Musicians
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These poor old dears, no longer able to do their jobs,
left home to seek their fortune in the town of
Bremen. So the German fairy tale written down by the
Brothers Grimm goes. This figure is made up of four
ring-turned animals carved in the workshop of the
internationally renowned craftsman Christian Werner.
This workshop is in the tiny German village of Seiffen
in Erzgebirge, the mountain home of wooden toys,
especially animals, made by carving sections out of
lathed rings. This gr ...click for details
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