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Adorable Hummel 51 2/0 Village Boy TMK 3 A. Moeller 4

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Adorable Hummel 51 2/0 Village Boy TMK 3 A. Moeller 4

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Stamped 51 2/0

Marked: W Germany

Small stylized bee

Height 4 inches

We are pleased to offer this lovely Hummel entitled 'Village Boy'�.

It is stamped #51 2/0 for the mold number and is marked with the small stylized bee mark and has 'W. Germany'� beneath it, both in blue ink. It is TMK-3. The height is about 4 inches tall and it weighs approximately 42.8 grams. The master sculptor for this piece was Arthur Moeller (See below), a skilled artist who sculpted for Mr. Goebel for 20 years before Mr. Goebel started working on the Hummels. It also has the initial of the painter who colored it on the bottom.

The boy is a brown haired lad with the signature orange neck scarf. His jacket is green, and he is wearing brown Lederhosen (leather shorts with suspenders). He has on black shoes, light green socks, holds a stick under his right arm, has his right hand in his pocket, and has a brown basket in the crook of his left arm. He is looking upwards, and one can only wonder what is on his mind, because he seems to be singing, perhaps with birds, because that is also a common theme in Hummels.

The artist behind the lovely hummel figurines is Berta Hummel, a Franciscan sister called Maria Innocentia. Berta Hummel was born on May 21, 1909 in lower Bavaria where her talent for art was encouraged and nourished by her parents. At the age of 25 she joined the convent of Siessen on Aug. 30, 1934 where she created paintings and drawings that made her famous. Little did her superiors dream that this modest blue-eyed artist who had joined their community would someday be world wide renown.

Arthur Moeller

When the first M. I. Hummel figurines were made in 1935, the Goebel master sculptors were Arthur Moeller and Reinhold Unger. At the time Moeller had worked for Goebel for almost 25 years. He sculpted actively until the mid-1950's and is responsible for about 100 different Hummel figurine molds. It could be said that his creativeness and artistic abilities set standards and laid the foundation for what became the most famous figurine lines of all time.

Sister Hummel worked with both Moeller and Unger with Unger specializing in the sculpted interpretations of her religious works while Moeller concentrated on the more secular interpretations.

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