Elf Collection | Designed by Robert Simpich | Pristine Condition
Go ahead — shake his hand. It's tradition.
In the old stories, a handshake from a chimney sweep brings a year of good luck, and Smudge is holding his hand out to you like he knows it. Fresh off a job, by the look of him: there's soot smudged across his cheeks and nose, dusted into his white hair and eyebrows, and his boots are blacked to the toe. He hasn't bothered to clean up, and that's the charm — the grin under the soot says the work suits him fine. He's got his tall black top hat, a red buffalo-plaid scarf against the cold, red mittens, and his chimney brush standing at his side like a soldier's pike.
The soot is the detail to look at closely. It isn't grime — it's painted, deliberately, cheek by cheek and brow by brow, so that Smudge is permanently, cheerfully mid-shift. His name was earned.
Smudge was designed by my grandfather Robert "Bob" Simpich. He's one of the rarer elves I've had come through — a character collectors mention often and see seldom.
Cast from Bob's design, then hand-painted and dressed in hand-sewn clothing in the Simpich doll shop.
Elf Collection | Designed by Robert Simpich | Pristine Condition
Go ahead — shake his hand. It's tradition.
In the old stories, a handshake from a chimney sweep brings a year of good luck, and Smudge is holding his hand out to you like he knows it. Fresh off a job, by the look of him: there's soot smudged across his cheeks and nose, dusted into his white hair and eyebrows, and his boots are blacked to the toe. He hasn't bothered to clean up, and that's the charm — the grin under the soot says the work suits him fine. He's got his tall black top hat, a red buffalo-plaid scarf against the cold, red mittens, and his chimney brush standing at his side like a soldier's pike.
The soot is the detail to look at closely. It isn't grime — it's painted, deliberately, cheek by cheek and brow by brow, so that Smudge is permanently, cheerfully mid-shift. His name was earned.
Smudge was designed by my grandfather Robert "Bob" Simpich. He's one of the rarer elves I've had come through — a character collectors mention often and see seldom.
Cast from Bob's design, then hand-painted and dressed in hand-sewn clothing in the Simpich doll shop.
