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	Sebnitz - Tragant - Wax

Sebnitz

It seems that the house represents a booth, where the butcher sells his Bratwürste. If a customer wanted to buy one, he had to ring the bell....! and maybe it represents a restaurant, called by that name "Bratwurstglöcklein". A chimney could possibly have been attached once, it fits for a restaurant as well as for a booth!!

Tragant Originally served the pharmacists as stabilization and bonding agent. When this gum from the box thorn was mixed with sugar, water and sometimes eggs, it became a well malleable dough. It was often molded in flat modelling casts. When dried in a warm oven it became very hard, was less porous than other dough and could therefore be finely painted.
The tragant figures are between 10 and 5 cm high.
Tragant doggy in Gablonz doghouse
Wax
Small wax angels with Dresden wings; 6cm high.		Wax fruit, 4,5 and 6,5cm high	Angel with wax head & candles, paper, foil & brocade dressing, spun glass hair, ca 24cm high
Angel with wax head & cotton arms/hands, paper & foil dressing, should have spun glass hair, ca 17cm high		Angel with wax head & hands, foil and tinsel dressing, imitation hair, rather modern, ca 15cm high

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