 | Two rare late 19th
century cast iron figurals made in the United States. |
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 | A 19th century
bronze screw nutcracker from England. |
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 | Several 18th
and 19th century small wooden nutcrackers from
France and England. |
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 | A Chinese lever
nutcracker from Germany, crafted about 1930. |
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 | An 18th
century man from the Gröden valley of Italy. |
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 | A World War I soldier
carved in Switzerland. |
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 | A 19th century
French lever nutcracker featuring a monkey design. |
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 | A late 19th
century Swiss lever nutcracker depicting a bear in a
hollow tree. |
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 | A late 19th
century Swiss lever showing a bear sitting on a tree
stump. |
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 | A 19th century
Raven carved in France. |
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 | An extremely rare early
19th century ivory nutcracker for pine nuts.
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 | A rare Meissen nutcracker
from Germany crafted in the late 19th century. |
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 | A cast brass nutcracker
by Hal Davis in 1979, the original mold in Claudia’s
collection. |
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