Sonneberg, Germany News

The Blessberg tunnel, Germany's third largest, constructed by Bulgarian company "Adval" JSC and the German Ed.

Enclosed are photographs of a bride doll I purchased years ago at a yard sale. It is marked "Made in Germany Armand Marseille 390." It has a closed mouth, pierced ears and glass eyes.

For those of us who celebrate Christmas, few things are as evocative of the season as the brightly-colored nutcrackers most of us set on our window sills and mantlepieces.

All the stuff I wrote 2.5 years ago about the New Hotness of eastern German toymaking legend Renate Mueller still stands: the only things different are that R 20th Century has finally amassed enough vintage Mueller to put on a retrospective--and to get the designer a sweet writeup in the design issue of The NY Times T Magazine --and that Mueller's ...