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Harker Pottery Company – Oldest Pottery in America
Also known as the “oldest pottery in America,” the Harker Pottery Company was incorporated
in East Liverpool, Ohio, in 1890, but was later moved by the Harker family to Chester, West Virginia. It made pottery teapots
and other kitchenware from the 1840’s until the mid-1970s. The company first produced yellow ware and copied Rockingham ware
from Rockingham England. In its late years, Harker Pottery produced stoneware and crockpot liners.
Sister Maria Innocentia’s Hummel Figurines give a brief history of one of the world’s most popular collectibles, Hummel Figurines. This article describes Sister Maria Innocentia’s beginnings and training as an artist and what led to Goebel’s contract with the nun
from Bavaria, Germany. Outasite!! Antiques is part of NOVA-Antiques, which is the Mid-Atlantic website for all things antique
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Sister Maria Innocentia – Hummel Figurine Collectibles
On January 9, 1935 an important birth happened in Germany. It is the date
on which the very popular and wildly collectible Hummel Figurines were born. In actuality, this was the day that Sister Maria
Innocentia Hummel signed the contract with Goebel Porzellan that allowed them to transform her drawings into the lovable figurines
that we are most familiar with. The contract also gave Goebel exclusivity in the manufacturer of the figurines that bore the
M.I. Hummel name.
Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel was born Berta Hummel in the rural town of Massing in Bavaria in Germany. As a child she already
had the attributes that make a great artist, she was curious, observant and she was creative. Her surroundings provided her
plenty of backdrops and characters for her drawings and by the age of 6 she impressed not only her classmates, but the nuns at the
catholic school she attended. At the age of 12, she entered the Institute of English Sisters, Marienhoehe to begin her formal
art training. She later studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Munich, Germany. She began painting pictures of children
which then would be made into postcards, which is how she came to the attention of Goebel.
Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel was a brilliant artist and the mother of one of the world’s most loved collectibles. Unfortunately,
Sister Maria died of TB at the young age of 37, in 1946. However, her art lives on not only through the Hummel figurines by
Goebel, but the drawings and paintings that she left behind. The Convent of Siessen, who Sister Maria was associated with, created
an artistic board after her death to look out for her legacy.