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Item 

Germany's Goebel Hummel company is perhaps best known for its 1930s figurines featuring nostalgic scenes with cute children, but it produced a wider range of other pieces which are also collected and often rarer.

These amusing hand-painted bookends, featuring caricatures of two cigar-smoking wealthy businessmen, are good examples. The word 'rare' can be over-used on Ebay, but we think it is justified in this case. Find us another example! We have been unsuccessfully searching on line for years to try to find a match.

The 1930s saw a rise in "fat cat" capitalist caricatures—stout men, bowler hats and large cigars, often depicting bankers, businessmen and politicians and figurines like these are now very collectable  

Condition

All our items are pre-owned and usually range between 10 and 210 years old, so they inevitably (and reassuringly) show some signs of age and use, which we always do our best to reflect in our pictures. 

Although these vintage bookends are probably around 90 years old, they have survived well. We cannot see any chips, cracks or age related discolouration, just a minor wear on the paint on the top of the bowler hat of the figurine in the brown jacket. 

Pricing


Whenever possible our asking prices are based on either our knowledge of the genre and rareness or on what similar pieces have been sold for on the international market, rather than what some sellers are asking, which are usually two very different things! 

 

You will normally find that our prices sit somewhere in the middle between auction and professional dealer prices and the current market. We are always willing to consider realistic offers. 

 

Shipping


We have a 100pc success rate for over a decade in successfully shipping fragile antiques and collectables across the UK and the wider World. We only charge what the Post Office and couriers charge us and subsidise the cost of packing materials.

 

International shipping? Since Covid, we have started to use eBay's Global Shipping Programme for packages over 2kg because it has proved to be competitive and reliable. They also handle the paperwork, which helps both buyers and sellers during a period of changing trade tariffs.

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