Originally unadorned and solely made for cracking nuts open, over the decades, these handy little implements were transformed into wooden toys often painted as soldiers. The Nutcracker ballet ...

Nutcracker dolls can trace their little wooden development back to the Ore Mountains of Germany in the late 17th century.

But he spent a month perfecting the foot-tall drummer boy, king, Santa and soldier nutcrackers for the USPS ... in May 2007 made from a scrap wood from the replica of the ship Susan Constant ...

The "smoking man" is a wooden figurine that serves as ... where many American soldiers were stationed nearby. The soldiers started to bring back nutcracker dolls for their families as typical ...