This holiday season sees many new additions to our collection of smoking men from the Erzgebirge: the charming smokers by the workshop of Klaus Merten, and a number of cunning miniature smokers from Crottendorf.
The Merten smokers are the typical height of the Erzgebirge smoking man–approximately 8 inches–and feature a wide range of subjects: There are […]

We have the three bears:

This is a spectacular set, smoothly finished and wonderful to hold. They range from a Baby Bear of 1 3/4 inches to a quite substantial Papa Bear, who fills an adult’s hand. In this case, Goldilocks will find that all three are just right.

We’re very excited to be able to offer three new baby toys–new to us, that is. They are the Fish Rattle, disk grasping toy and wooden rattle ball, three designs in the “Spielzeug Allbedeut” series by the German philosopher Hugo Kuekelhaus. They are made by a workshop for the mentally handicapped in Germany, and are […]