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<\/a><\/p>\nThat brings us to the exciting news.\u00a0 The Skull Nutcracker that listed on ebay a couple weeks ago sold.\u00a0 It sold to and is going to be displayed at the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n We are really excited about this.\u00a0 We have been collecting nutcrackers since our son was 3 years old.\u00a0 His grandmother bought him one and he was completely fascinated with it.\u00a0 Each year since we have bought at least one, sometimes more.\u00a0 We look for unusual ones or ones that relate to something about the year.\u00a0 We did however come to the point where they were getting too repetitive and a two years ago we couldn’t find one we wanted to purchase.\u00a0 Brandon started looking for something more unique\u00a0 than today’s commercial nutcrackers to buy for my Christmas present and discovered Black Forest Figural Nutcrackers.\u00a0 He was seriously thinking of buying an antique figural nutcracker, of Otto von Bismark.\u00a0 He thought he’d better ask what I thought before he bought one.\u00a0 I saw it and liked it but because of a past bad experience with an antique (a story for next Halloween) that I would prefer not to have an antique.\u00a0 That got his wheels turning.\u00a0 He is an excellent woodcarver so why not make his own?\u00a0 Shortly thereafter he carved his first bear nutcracker.\u00a0 The prototype of the one now listed on Ebay.\u00a0 Now our collection grows when he creates a new nutcracker.\u00a0 I (we) get the prototype and I proudly display them all year as they are truly works of art.<\/p>\n