{"id":3879,"date":"2024-04-07T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T20:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2024-04-07T15:14:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T20:14:20","slug":"cat-nutcracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=3879","title":{"rendered":"Cat Nutcracker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Here’s a great cat figural nutcracker we added to our collection recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I bought this great piece on Ebay a while ago. It was missing an eye and had some considerable damage on the left side of its face<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are some pictures of the piece as I received it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are a couple pictures of the piece in process as I was restoring it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are some pictures of it all done and fully restored:<\/p>\n\n\n

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A huge shout out to Megan at Handmade Glass Eyes<\/mark><\/a> for carrying high domed cat glass eyes that are an accurate replacement for these pieces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trust me, accurate eyes for these vintage pieces are hard to find and Handmade Glass Eyes<\/mark><\/a> is my shop’s “go to” for eyes now versus the taxidermy sites I was trying to use in the past where types, styles, and sizes of eyes are very limited. Megan’s site is wonderful and was a great find!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well that wraps it up. I gave this piece to my wife for her birthday and she was absolutely thrilled with it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a great cat figural nutcracker we added to our collection recently. I bought this great piece on Ebay a while ago. It was missing an eye and had some considerable damage on the left side of its face Here are some pictures of the piece as I received it: Here are a couple pictures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,79],"tags":[182,199,232,427,196,303,428,51,429,63,219,68,305,71,98,309],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-restorations","tag-antique","tag-antique-repair","tag-black-forest","tag-black-walnut","tag-cat","tag-figural-nutcracker","tag-glass-eyes","tag-hand-carved","tag-handmade","tag-mahogany","tag-nut-cracker","tag-nutcracker","tag-nutcracker-collectors-club","tag-nutcracker-restoration","tag-vintage-nutcracker","tag-wood-carving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3893,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}