Traditional character smokers are the closest thing to the Räuchermann's original form — miners, night watchmen, kings, and forest folk, the archetypes Erzgebirge carvers have produced since the craft's earliest days in the 1800s. Many of these designs date back to when out-of-work Ore Mountains miners took up woodturning and modeled their new smoker figures on the working life around them. If you're looking for the most historically rooted version of the tradition, this is the collection to start with.