Elf Collection | Pristine Condition | Designed by Jan Simpich
He's found them, and he wants you to see.
Huckleberry has one mitten up in a wave and a basket of red berries swinging from his shoulder, and his whole face is doing the same thing at once — grin wide enough to show his teeth, eyes creased, freckles across the bridge of his nose. He is the young one. Every other elf in this group has a white beard and a lifetime behind him. Huckleberry has neither, and that's the first thing you notice standing him next to the others.
The basket is the piece to look at. It's an acorn cap — the real shape, with the cross-hatched scaling of the cup rendered tight and clean around the bottom — turned into a berry basket and slung on a thin suede strap. Inside, a mound of sculpted berries in deep red, each one rounded and individually catching light, tucked among green leaves. The woods gave him the container and the woods filled it. That idea, an elf small enough to use an acorn as luggage, is the whole scale argument for these figures in one object.
His cap is sculpted and painted a deep green, the brim breaking into a row of curling lobes like leaves turned up all the way around, with his red-orange hair curling out from under it in painted waves. Below that: a camel suede tunic cut in sharp points at the hem and cuff, teal wool mittens and leggings, and a soft blue plaid scarf — blues going to green with rust threads through it — wound high at the neck with the fringe hanging loose. The scarf carries down his back as cleanly as it does the front.
His boots are sculpted, cuffed at the ankle and curled at the toe, painted the same warm clay brown the shop used across the elves.
Huckleberry was designed by my grandmother Jan Simpich, and he came late — one of the last elves added to the line rather than one of the originals. That's part of why he's hard to find. Fewer years in production, fewer made, fewer still surviving in a condition worth listing.
And this one is worth listing. The paint on his face is crisp — the freckles, the lash lines, the individual teeth all still sharp — the teal hasn't gone gray, and the berries have kept their depth of color.
Cast from Jan's design, then hand-painted and dressed in hand-sewn clothing in the Simpich doll shop.
Elf Collection | Pristine Condition | Designed by Jan Simpich
He's found them, and he wants you to see.
Huckleberry has one mitten up in a wave and a basket of red berries swinging from his shoulder, and his whole face is doing the same thing at once — grin wide enough to show his teeth, eyes creased, freckles across the bridge of his nose. He is the young one. Every other elf in this group has a white beard and a lifetime behind him. Huckleberry has neither, and that's the first thing you notice standing him next to the others.
The basket is the piece to look at. It's an acorn cap — the real shape, with the cross-hatched scaling of the cup rendered tight and clean around the bottom — turned into a berry basket and slung on a thin suede strap. Inside, a mound of sculpted berries in deep red, each one rounded and individually catching light, tucked among green leaves. The woods gave him the container and the woods filled it. That idea, an elf small enough to use an acorn as luggage, is the whole scale argument for these figures in one object.
His cap is sculpted and painted a deep green, the brim breaking into a row of curling lobes like leaves turned up all the way around, with his red-orange hair curling out from under it in painted waves. Below that: a camel suede tunic cut in sharp points at the hem and cuff, teal wool mittens and leggings, and a soft blue plaid scarf — blues going to green with rust threads through it — wound high at the neck with the fringe hanging loose. The scarf carries down his back as cleanly as it does the front.
His boots are sculpted, cuffed at the ankle and curled at the toe, painted the same warm clay brown the shop used across the elves.
Huckleberry was designed by my grandmother Jan Simpich, and he came late — one of the last elves added to the line rather than one of the originals. That's part of why he's hard to find. Fewer years in production, fewer made, fewer still surviving in a condition worth listing.
And this one is worth listing. The paint on his face is crisp — the freckles, the lash lines, the individual teeth all still sharp — the teal hasn't gone gray, and the berries have kept their depth of color.
Cast from Jan's design, then hand-painted and dressed in hand-sewn clothing in the Simpich doll shop.
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