Christian Ulbricht

Beekeeper Smoker

Name: Beekeeper Smoker
Brand: Alexander Taron
SKU: 35-280
Price: 237.0 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

A beekeeper in his green coat and linen apron, felt whiskers bristling under a brimmed hat with a bee perched on top. He carries a skep hive by its cord with a bee on the side, another bee has settled on his apron, and his pipe is in his other hand.

Material: Hand-turned and hand-painted wood with fabric details
To use: Lift the figure from its base, set a lit incense cone inside, and replace. Scented smoke drifts from the mouth.
Incense cones sold separately
Made in Germany

Dimensions

7.5" H x 5" W x 4" D

About Christian Ulbricht

The Ulbricht workshop began in 1928 in Seiffen, a village in Germany's Erzgebirge, when Otto Ulbricht opened a studio for fine woodwork and toys. His ancestors had been miners who turned to the lathe when the region's silver and tin ran out. Otto's designs won gold at the Paris World's Fair, but after the war the business was taken by the state and the family fled west, rebuilding on the Danube in Lauingen. His son Christian, born in Seiffen, took over in 1968, bought the original company back after reunification, and reopened the workshop in Seiffen in 1997.

Today Gunther Ulbricht runs the company with his children, Kathrin and Steffen, the fourth generation. The house is best known for its nutcrackers, and the smokers come from the same benches: miners, bakers, woodsmen, chimney sweeps, and Santas, each turned, assembled, and painted by hand. Every figure is hollow and holds a small incense cone, and the scented smoke drifts out through its mouth.