Hummel "Auf Wiedersehen Farewell" #65, TML-7 Final Issue 1993 on Base, Artisan date 1987, Sculptor Arthur Möller 1937

Hummel "Auf Wiedersehen Farewell" #65, TML-7 Final Issue 1993 on Base, Artisan date 1987, Sculptor Arthur Möller 1937.

This Final Issue, features the known error in design. These is very special. Picture six features the "Missing Handle" of the basket. This was included ONLY on Hummel #65 as a way to show history. You can find this same issue on the Little Shopper, and a few other Hummels where the handle goes through the arm. Another Hummel mystery....

This is the final issue of mold #65. It will not be used again and has been destroyed. Auf Wiedersehen is goodbye, farewell (in German). She is 4 3/4 inches tall in Like-New condition. She is in a new box.

The figurine represented a child during the Berlin Airlift when Very Brave American Pilots flew food, medicine, and candy parachutes into Berlin to stop the starvation at the end of World War II.

Children gathered at the fence of the airstrip then the parachutes of handkerchiefs would wave as the candy floated down to the children. The candy was attached to tiny strips of material or cloths by Boy Scouts and Volunteers in the US to be dropped from the planes by the brave American Military Air Crews members.

One American Pilot started doing the candy parachutes from the airplane flight deck window to the children seeing, how hungry they were. It turned into smiles and soon became unstoppable for 50 days of Berlin's airlift food and medicines.

As the fights left the airfield, the mothers, fathers, and children would wave & call out to the planes, "Auf Wiedersehen!" Hopefully, the aircraft will come back tomorrow.

After 50 days, East and West Berlin were divided, the flights never flew there again. The Berlin Airlift was over, but the remembrance affected many generations. Brave, loving multi-national American Pilots carried out the flights.

And we wonder why they were the "Greatest Generation." I moved to W. Germany in the late 1960s and it was a story told by many German Nationals and certainly made me proud. They could never tell me about it without all of us shedding tears and hugs.
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Sculptor: Arthur Möller 1885-1972 Goebel Hummel (employee): 1910 to 1957

Estimated Hummel age 40 years old.

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