Nutcracker Soldier

Wilhelm Friedrich Füchtner (1844-1923), known the world over as the "Father of the Nutcracker" carved the very first nutcracker around 1870. His home workshop in Seiffen, the small toy-making village in the middle of the Erzgebirge in eastern Germany, is still the home of the finest nutcrackers. Today, six generations later, Volker Füchtner honors his great-great-great grandfather by still producing nutcrackers in the old tradition in the very same home workshopthe birthplace of the nutcracker. Each Füchtner nutcracker is stamped "Füchtner - First Famiily of the Nutcracker," hand-signed by Volker Füchtner. It is believed that Wilhelm Friedrich Füchtner was inspired by the nutcracker in the story book from which Tchaikovsky's ballet was created, the "Nutcracker Suite". More details...