Wooden Nutcracker Ornaments with Baton.
Item Number: HB36 48438F

		Our Price: $4.83
These 5.5 inch nutcracker soldiers are dressed in blue and gold coats with red trim. He is also wearing red pants, a black hat with a gold stars and gold spikes on top, and tall black boots. This white-haired soldier is standing at attention with his scepter in his right hand touching the ground. The nutcracker ornaments have a rounded wood base so the nutcracker ornaments can set on any flat surface. The nutcracker ornament hanger is a braided gold lame cord. Select this link to view our Wooden Nutcracker Ornaments. History of German Nutcrackers Produced for generations by skilled German woodcrafter, nutcrackers were traditionally dressed as soldiers and kings. In old Germany, it delighted villagers to see these authoritarian figures doing menial tasks such as cracking nuts! A bowl of Christmas nuts was just not complete without a colorful German nutcracker standing at attention nearby. Nutcrackers were especially popular with Germans who coined the phrase, “Gott gibt die nüsse aber knacken müss man sie selbst (God gives the nuts, but we must crack them ourselves),” which was intended to teach children that life was hard but rewarding. This phrase made the nutcracker a favorite toy, possibly because it enabled children to reach life’s rewards more easily. Select this link to view our Unique Christmas Ornaments. Regimental Dress The styles and decoration of military uniforms varied immensely with the status, image and funds of the military throughout the ages. Uniform dress became the norm with the adoption of regimental systems, initially by the French Army in the mid seventeenth century. Some Swedish infantry had been issued with standard coloured dress under Gustavus Adophus. However in the main the levies of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries wore civilian dress with scarves, pieces of foliage or other makeshift identification. Even Royal guards would only be issued with surcoats to wear over ordinary clothing. Select this link to view our Large Nutcrackers. During the Eighteenth Century The normal military uniform comprised a standardized form of civilian dress (tricorn hat, long-skirted coat, waistcoat and breeches). One distinctively military feature was the long canvas gaiters which came up to mid-thigh and had multiple buttons. Dress was surprisingly standard between European armies in cut and general outline. The distinction normally lay in colours, red coats for the British and Danes, light gray then white for the French, Spanish and Austrian infantry, dark blue for the Prussians, green for the Russians etc. Within armies different regiments were usually distinguished by "facings" or turn backs and braiding on coats in colours that were distinctive to one or several regiments. Thus the Royal Comtois Infantry Regiment of the French Army, for example, had large dark blue cuffs on off white coats. Select this link to view our Wooden Nutcracker Soldiers.
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