Germany: Merkel incense smoker figurines in high demand as sign of outgoing era

Follow us on Telegram: Subscribe to our channel! As German Chancellor Angela Merkel is about to leave her post after 16 years in office, a Seiffen workshop sells wooden incense smoker figurines as souvenirs of the Merkel era, as seen on Thursday. Fourteen-centimetre-tall mini-Merkels depicting the outgoing Chancellor with a signature hand gesture are available in three colours for 69 euros ($80) per piece, with 10 percent of revenue donated to flood-hit areas of western Germany. As shared by Andreas Bilz, the company’s CEO, the first 300 figures were sold out within three days, adding that “today we have about 2000 orders for the smoking figure of Chancellor Angela Merkel and this figure is actually ordered by customers from all over the world.“ The workshop even sent the smokers to the Chancellery and got an answer. “And it didn’t take long as we got an answer, the Chancellor thanked us and wished us goo