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Pitl malan' Krampus figure

This delicately figure of an impishly grinning Krampus carved from pear wood carries a basket to keep cigarettes in. It was made by the sculptor Franz Insam de Cësanueva from Santa Cristina, who created a series of items popular throughout the whole Habsburg empire in the 1870s - not only items such as this one for tobacco consumers, but nutcrackers, too. 

Jointed horse and rider with jointed limbs

This jointed horse with rider was made from stained nut wood by Josef Insam's company at Neuhaus in Santa Cristina and was put together using 104 individual pieces. Jointed, turned figurines (for academic purposes or puppets) were produced to a height of 201 cm. Their ball-and-socket joints allowed numerous body positions and they were intended for painters and sculptors, schools and academies.