Designer: Carl Auböck II (1900 – 1957)

Item: Nutcracker Model 4040

Manufactured by: Werkstätte Carl Auböck

Country of origin: Austria

Year made: 1950s

Materials: Turkish Walnut bowl with nickel or chrome-plated brass screw down nut cracker, steel screws

Dimensions:  4” x 7” in diameter

Condition: Excellent.

Description: Here is another of the iconic Auböck designs for a nutcracker.  This well documented model incorporates his very early screw down nutcracker with a wood bowl to hold the nuts.  We have seen two different versions of this model produced, one with a straight down screw in brass and the other like this with an earlier chrome finish angled screw.  This example is identical to an example from the collection of Clemons Kois and sold by Patrick Parrish.  Unmarked but guaranteed authentic.    

References: Wright Auction Catalog; The Workshop: Carl Auböck Designs 1930-1980 (2016); Kois, Clemens, Carl Auböck: The Workshop, Powerhouse Books (2012); Wright Auction Catalog; The Workshop: Carl Auböck Designs 1930-1980 (2016). Auböck, Carl IV, die kataloge der werkstätte carl auböck (1925 - 2016) – 1975, Carl Auböck Archive (2005); Auböck, Carl IV, die arbeiten der Werkstätte carl auböck – fotografiert von 1948 – 2005, Carl Auböck Archiv (2009).