Christian Ulbricht

Toy Maker Smoker

Name: Toy Maker Smoker
Brand: Alexander Taron
SKU: 1-155
Price: 262.0 USD
Availability: InStock

A toy maker in his flat cap and olive felt waistcoat, beard full and pipe in mouth, holding up a little wooden train he has just finished. In his other hand, a wooden tool carrier with a mallet and handles poking out, the kind of playthings and tools the Erzgebirge workshops have been known for since the 1700s.

Material: Hand-turned and hand-painted wood with felt and faux fur 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

9.5" H x 5" W x 4.25" 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.

Toy Maker Smoker

$262.00