Saint Nicholas Day tins
For 6 December across Central Europe
Ready-made designs for 6 December — Nikolaus, Mikołajki, Mikulás, Moș Nicolae. Printed on moulds we already own — no tooling cost, no wait.
6 December is Saint Nicholas Day, and it is not one market. Nikolaus in Germany and Austria, Mikołajki in Poland, Mikulás in Hungary, Mikuláš in Czechia, Moș Nicolae in Romania — one date, one gift habit, five languages. This range is drawn to serve all of them from a single set of moulds.
What you are looking at
The designs on this page are ours — drawn in-house and shown here so you can see what the range looks like before committing to anything. Each one is ready to print on moulds we already own, and goes into production once there is an order behind it. That means no tooling cost and no wait for a new shape — only printing and forming.
Tins in this range
Our own designs, printed on our own moulds.
Ordering from this range
- Minimum order
- From 5,000 pieces per design
- Lead time
- 4–6 weeks from artwork approval
- Tooling
- None — these use moulds we already own
Because the mould already exists, a ready-made range skips the eight weeks and the tooling cost a new shape needs. What is left is printing and forming.
What this range is not
A ready-made design is not exclusive. Anyone can order the same tin, and some of them will be your competitors. If you need artwork nobody else can buy, that is a custom project — same moulds, your own design, and the exclusivity applies to the artwork, not to the shape.
How custom projects work →Frequently asked questions
Which countries does this range cover?
Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Romania and Slovakia all keep 6 December as a gift day for children, with a boot or a stocking filled the night before. The tin is the same in all of them; only the name on the page changes.
When do these need to be ordered?
September. The date is 6 December, retail wants the tins on shelf from mid-November, and printing and forming take four to six weeks from artwork approval. Working backwards, an artwork approved in September is comfortable and one approved in October is not.
How is this different from the Christmas range?
The artwork, mostly — and the date it has to be on shelf. Saint Nicholas Day is 6 December and belongs to children; Christmas is the household and corporate gift three weeks later. Two of the moulds are shared between the ranges, which is useful rather than awkward: a buyer taking both gets one artwork approval cycle and one production run.
Is Sinterklaas the same thing?
Same saint, different evening, different country. The Netherlands keeps 5 December as Sinterklaas with its own imagery and its own products; Central Europe keeps 6 December. We run them as two ranges because a Dutch buyer and a Polish buyer are not shopping for the same tin.
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