GUT HOLZ! NIPPER

The Schaefer & Vater Porcelain Factory was best known for producing humorous character flasks (also known as nippers), in addition to other porcelain crafts, with a distinctive blue glaze. The company operated for nearly a century beginning in 1890, and they produced hundreds of unique character flasks from animals to political figures to folk heroes. This bowler, whose top hat also functions as a cork, awaits his roll above a “Gut Holz” inscription, a common bowler’s exclamation in German.