Hummel "Auf Wiedersehen Farewell" #65, TML-7 Final Issue 1993Goebel Tag, New in Box, Artisan date 1987, Sculptor Arthur Möller 1937

Hummel "Auf Wiedersehen Farewell" #65, TML-7 Final Issue 1993Goebel Tag, New in Box, Artisan date 1987, Sculptor Arthur Möller 1937

This Final Issue, features the known error in design. These is very special. Itt features the "Missing Handle" of the basket. This was included in many baskets with the girl. 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 has been destroyed. Auf Wiedersehen is goodbye, farewell (in German). She is 4 3/4 inches tall in New condition, original goebel Love, Lives On box, padding, Certificate of authentication, The Final Issue golden tag showing 1993 she was part of the last lot from the original mold. She will arrive in her original box with COA, cleaned and ready for display.

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 why do we wonder they were the "Greatest Generation."

My military husband and I were reassigned 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.

Shipped 1-3 Day (B) USPS Priority Shipping in a new shipping box, bubble pack, at no charge to you.

Sculptor: Arthur Möller 1885-1972 Goebel Hummel (employee): 1910 to 1957

Picture credit
Honor Flight for WWII Flying Pilots of the Berlin Air Lift yr 2020.
These are only 3 but there were whole flight Crews with them.

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