“It’s the first time a figurine of such note has been retired,” she pointed out. The most valuable Hummel of all is “Silent Night With Black Child,” which was produced in very limited ...

Franz Goebel, one of the owners of the fabricator, saw huge potential in handcrafting high-quality figurines and made an agreement with the convent to do so. Hummel retained final artistic control ...

None of the Hummel figurines can be molded in a single piece ... “I thought they should be together,” says the retired chief executive officer of Conservative Water Co., a public utility ...

BORDENTOWN CITY-- When the U.S. operations of M.I. Hummel Co. were liquidated, an air of uncertainty swept the collectors' world about what lay ahead for the German porcelain figurines.

Born Berta Hummel in 1909, Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel was both an artist and a nun from the Third Order of St. Francis.