Height 4.25" x 8" x 22.5"
The biggest celebrity of all, Santa, has always managed to elude the scandal tinted gossip magazines. No reality show here! Working all year round to please friends and foes, and especially the little ones. Santa juggles gifts for good boys and girls. The latest in our series of classic Christmas objects, with a history going back centuries. Handmade in 3-D, using recycled iron tin plate. Handmade in recycled metal, expertly aged and finished with a subtle, attractive patina. Hand painted by skilled artists. Elegant, intriguing, irresistible....Using sharp chisels, craftsmen cut the steel plate into shape and hammer the edges. Others bend, cast and attach the wire hung counterweight and check balance and swing. Village painters hand paint faces and important details. Apprentices do base paint and more mundane details. The distressed finish is the result of an old and proven system of combined layers of paint of slightly different composition. The final step is a hand rub with dark colored beeswax giving it the final finish and feel. In the manner of their antique predecessors, our balance toys are true originals.