This 15 1/2-inch Hodrewa Guard nutcracker was purchased with a group of other damaged nutcrackers. It had probably been dropped from some height or knocked off a shelf. One of the dowels which held the head on, had sheared off and a small piece of wood had split off the body by the jaw.

After replacing the dowel and regluing the head to the body, the missing wood was replaced and the paint matched.

Like some other HoDreWa nutcrackers of this vintage, this guard features a cardboard sword and a wedge nose, cut from a turned disk.