The 6-inch-tall Rudolph and 11-inch-tall Santa were made in Tokyo of wood, wire, cloth and leather, and are still malleable. Rudolph’s nose still lights up. Santa’s beard is made from yak hair.

LOS ANGELES - And how the bidders loved him! A buyer shouted out with glee that they would pay $368,000 for the Rudolph and Santa Claus figures used in the perennially beloved Christmas special ...

The 6-inch-tall Rudolph and 11-inch-tall Santa were made in Tokyo of wood, wire, cloth and leather, and are still malleable. Rudolph’s nose still lights up. Santa’s beard is made from yak hair.

Many people mistakenly think that the figures are clay, but they actually were fashioned from cloth, wood and wire, Rudolph’s nose actually glows and the Santa’s beard was culled from a yak.

The 6-inch-tall Rudolph and 11-inch-tall Santa were made in Tokyo of wood, wire, cloth and leather, and are still malleable. Rudolph’s nose still lights up. Santa’s beard is made from yak hair.

They’re made of wood, wire, cloth and leather. Rudolph’s nose, after some minimal maintenance through the years, still lights up. The realistic bristles of Santa’s beard are made from yak hair.

SHEBOYGAN – A display of more than 100 wooden hand-carved Santa Claus figures can be viewed ... James cut blocks of Linden wood with a band saw and then carved details with Swiss and Austrian ...

you can shave it,” says Thomas Crickenberger as he works on another carving. All he needs to stay entertained for hours is a pocket knife and a spool of wood. “She is 82 and I just turned 89 ...

The 6-inch-tall Rudolph and 11-inch-tall Santa were made in Tokyo of wood, wire, cloth and leather, and are still malleable. Rudolph’s nose still lights up. Santa’s beard is made from yak hair.

LOS ANGELES - And how the bidders loved him! A buyer shouted out with glee that they would pay $368,000 for the Rudolph and Santa Claus figures used in the perennially beloved Christmas special ...