I HAVE THE MALE OTHER HALF OF THE PAIR I have placed it on e-bay item number 310175981378 it also has a flat back with the same details as your. Regards Bryan
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Peter (admin says):- Hey you should get these two together as a pair!
LOOKING FOR THE EBAY POSTER ABT MALE GOEBEL by: Antique Rarity Blogger
I did not know there was a response to my "ad" here. If the Ebay poster who posted here about the other end of my Goebel Shepherd Girl bookend, the male counterpart, please email me at: antiquerarity@gmail.com I tried to find the item number but it is not there any longer. Thank you
identification marks on figurine by: Don W
A couple of things. First: If the figure is a Hummel original, then her signature should be on the base. The bulk of MI Hummels work is on some sort of base which always bears her name, by agreement between Hummel and Goebel. There are a few baseless pieces out there, like HUM 214E but even then her signature is somewhere on the piece.
Second, the glaze on the figurine is very shiny which makes me think it is not MI Hummel. Her work was flat finish typically, and has more yellow in the paint pigments.
The mold number and Crown mark: I've not seen any Hummel mold numbers beginning with an alpha letter, it might end with one, such as 141X. The Crown mark has the appearance of Goebel's stamp but I can't distinguish the famous stylized WG, and that maybe due to the resolution of the image.
I am not an appraiser or antique expert, just an inheritor of a collection of 31 Hummels who has been spending a great deal of time looking for information on each piece.
Consider taking it to Antiques Road Show? Maybe they can help. I wish you well in your quest.
Bookend by: Anonymous
I have the girl (X 920B) but not the boy. Mine has a purple hat. One would have to be careful matching these up as the colours won't necessarily be right. This is definitely not a Hummel -it is a Goebel with a Goebel trademark (wide incised crown 1923-1949). if anyone has a boy figure to match I would be interested. The problem is that they would not have worked that well as bookends as they are so light. I suspect, therefore, that there are not that many complete pairs around as the tendency would be for the books to push these off the end of the shelves and thereby breaking one of the pair.
