The Silvestri family has been in the statuary business for five generations Arcangelo Silvestri along with his two brothers and a brother-in-law, settled in San Francisco in 1900. They began to manufacture ornamental mouldings and figurines out of plaster which they peddled from door to door.  More

Candice Kimmel brought her love of old world Garden Gnomes from her native country Wales to the gardens of the USA. Her studio is located in the beautiful Black hills of South Dakota, right in the heart of Sturgis.In a world of concrete and plastic, Candice exclusively manufactures high quality gnomes   More

Spang gnomes are very recognizable by their not so cute, cheeky faces and floppy caps. Clemens Spang started manufacturing  these fine gnomes in Ludwigsburg, West Germany between 1950's into the early 1960's.  More

One of the oldest German gnome manufacturers   who  produced quality gnomes from 1864 to 1945.  They  made their gnomes in ceramic clay and the quality of their craftsmanship was quite superb More

A large earthernware gnome made out of the production moulds in Rot am See, Germany, by Erich Griebel in 2001, together with a picture from an  original Erich Griebel catalogue, date unknown.  The gnome is made of sturdy earthernware, about 22inches tall and weighs about 6½ lbs.  More

(1872) widely known as the "inventor" of the German garden gnome, started his  business over 130 years ago. He made his gnomes exclusively out of ceramic and then lovingly hand painted them.  More

Johann Maresch,  Was born on July 11, 1821 went into partnership with Adolf Baehr around 1841.  Baehr had previously owned a factory in Pirna that produced ceramic wares and garden gnomes.  More

Philipp Griebel,(1874) a trained porcelain maker and moulder of animals and animal heads founded his terracotta factory in Graefenroda, a small town in Thuringia, Germany. Griebel's animal figures which were made for the house and garden were highly sought after and were admired by people all over the world. More

Plachy & Materne, Wirges,Westerwald, Germany started producing garden gnomes, animals and mushrooms under the name  of Puma plastic  during the late 1960's.  Their gnomes were made of hard plastic blown in two-part moulds and then hand painted. More

Reju  Kurt Renno jr. manufactured  ceramic garden gnomes during the late 50's in his small workshop situated in Ransbach, Westerwald. Germany. Reju gnomes were very substantial and heavy, made with red clay and carefully modelled and hand painted. They were stamped usually on the back with the ' Reju' logo and trade mark. More

manufactured gnomes and other figures towards the end of the 1950's. The garden gnomes tended to be  naively modelled in ceramic and were sold as  'original Lauterbacher, Purzel ceramics' The gnomes were carefully hand painted and varnished and were quite distinct in their appearance. More

of Eichwald, Bohemia  was one of the top producers of gnome figures during the late 1800's. Their fine work is prized by collectors and still much sort after. The company was founded in 1871 and operated under the Bernhard Bloch name until 1940, when it became Eichwald Porcelain and Stove Factory Bloch & Co. More

Made outstanding  gnomes and have turned in to collectors items. Made of earthenware and hand painted carefully. Louis Romeiss produced his gnomes in Graefenroda, Thuringia, Germany 1900 Many of the gnomes were not marked. More

Black Forest gnome carvings originated in the Swiss town of Brienz. From humble beginnings as a cottage industry in the early 1800s and grew by the turn of the twentieth century to become the industrial driving force of a whole community. The carving industry was driven by the tourist industry; Brienz, Luzern, Interlaken and other such picturesque resorts were in vogue with the wealthy Victorians. More