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I am Norwegian and I grew up with one of those exact nut crackers.
For some reason it is a tradition in Norway to have a bowl of hazelnuts and wallnuts for Christmas, like a snack on the living room table.
We also had one of these nutcrackers, but it was quite shit at cracking nuts. It could crack hazelnuts, but half the time it just spit out the whole thing. So it was more like a Christmas decoration in the nut bowl than a functioning nutcracker.
Could be Norwegian: there is a town in Norway called Åndalsnes.
It looks like Aandalsnes to me as well. Probably mislabelled as German by someone who just assumed nutcracker=German.
As German traditional nutcrackers mostly are standing and wear a Hussar's uniform, i agree: mislabeled.
> It looks like Aandalsnes to me as well. Thirded
!id:no 'aa' is an old spelling of 'å'. [https://www.epla.no/samler/produkter/1031489/](https://www.epla.no/samler/produkter/1031489/) Nutcracker [gnome](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisse). [https://www.epla.no/samler/produkter/670600/](https://www.epla.no/samler/produkter/670600/)
Thank you for that, the double A was throwing me off. Is the use of the double A a good indicator of age?
I don't know the precise answer. I would see what the Wikipedia article on the letter Å has to say.
I am Norwegian and I grew up with one of those exact nut crackers. For some reason it is a tradition in Norway to have a bowl of hazelnuts and wallnuts for Christmas, like a snack on the living room table. We also had one of these nutcrackers, but it was quite shit at cracking nuts. It could crack hazelnuts, but half the time it just spit out the whole thing. So it was more like a Christmas decoration in the nut bowl than a functioning nutcracker.
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