The Christmas Haus Nutcracker #3 (2009), Tax Collector

Exclusive Hand-Numbered Limited Edition of 100

Roger Lund, owner of The Christmas Haus in New Oxford, PA, and Volker Füchtner of Seiffen, Germany, created this, The Christmas Haus' second exclusive nutcracker.

Lund designed a special coloration for a king nutcracker, which is based on the original c. 1870 design of Wilhem Friedrich Füchtner, Volker's great-great-great grandfather.

Each is nutcracker signed, numbered and dated. Each year Lund and Füchtner will add another nutcracker to the series.

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, and comes in a custom wooden crate, complete with the Füchtner family story in both German and English as well as the story of The Christmas Haus Nutcracker #3 (2009).

The nutcracker is approximately 14" tall.