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2. Nutcracker doll - Wikipedia

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   An average handcrafted nutcracker doll is made out of about 60 separate pieces. [2] Nutcracker dolls traditionally resemble toy soldiers, and are often painted in bright colors. [1] Different designs proliferated early; by the early 19th century there were ones dressed as miners, policemen, royalty or soldiers from different armies. [2]

3. How Nutcrackers Became a Classic Symbol of Christmas

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   Nutcracker dolls can trace their little wooden development back to the Ore Mountains of Germany in the late 17th century. Most often depicted as toy soldiers, they became gifts and symbols of good ...

4. 15 Expensive Nutcrackers That Put Our Basic Ones to Shame - AOL

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   Price: $2,195 Whimsical, adorable, and perfectly sized at 5 feet tall (just one inch shy of this teeny tiny writer’s height), this candy-themed nutcracker is made out of durable resin.

5. Nutcracker - Wikipedia

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   The lever design may derive from blacksmiths' pincers. Materials included metals such as silver, cast-iron and bronze, [3] and wood including boxwood, especially those from France and Italy. [1] More rarely, porcelain was used. [3] Many of the wooden carved nutcrackers were in the form of people and animals. [1] A screw nutcracker

6. Lord of the Nutcracker Men - Wikipedia

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   The brown paint of his clothes turns a moldy green, the wide grin on its face fades to a grim, mournful expression, a hairline crack comes down his chest, and a knothole begins to form in its chest. The book comes to a close when Johnny stops playing with his nutcracker soldiers, and brings them together for the Christmas Truce of 1914. The war ...

7. Support (art) - Wikipedia

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   The oldest known use of fabrics as a painting support dates back to the Dynasty XII in Egypt (2000 BC).The continuous use can be traced in both Europe and Asia. In Medieval Europe fabrics was overtaken by the wood panels for church use; Renaissance, with its wider spread of paintings, saw wide use of canvas, occasionally glued to the wood, a practice that originated in the Ancient Egypt, but ...