![]() ![]() ![]() The release of the Snow Baby figurines coincided with the birth of Admiral Robert Peary's daughter in Greenland while he was on an expedition to the North Pole in 1893. They were originally manufactured by Hertwig and Company, but other porcelain factories in Germany began creating the figurines soon after. Snow Babies were created as reusable cake toppers in the 1890s by Johann Moll, a German confectioner, based on early nineteenth-century sugar dolls used as Christmas decorations. ![]() In the late 1980s an American company called Department 56 began producing a new line of Snow Babies in Taiwan. In the 1920s, Japanese manufacturers began to produce Snow Baby replicas, though they were generally of a lesser quality than those made in Germany. With the onset of World War I, production stopped when it resumed after the war ended, the snow babies were less finely detailed in their porcelain and finish. The oldest Snow Babies were manufactured in Germany in the 1890s, and were typically either all white with a painted face, or painted in pastel colors. Figurines of other characters were also made, including Santa Claus, elves and animals such as penguins and polar bears. The traditional snow baby is made of unglazed biscuit porcelain (or bisque) and shows a child dressed in a snowsuit the suit itself is covered in small pieces of crushed bisque, giving the appearance of fallen snowflakes. A Snow Baby (or Snowbaby) is a small figurine, usually of a child, that depicts some aspect of the Christmas holidays or of winter sports. ![]()
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