go to Photobucket, sign up and up load pictures.....then copy the "tag" and paste it into the body of your message here.
I never heard of any Hummel figurines matching what you describe.
Linda C

Hummel did indeed produce some terra cotta figurines. If your's are authentic Hummel, they'd be considered rare.

Hummel? or Gobel?
Yes Hummel did produce some terracotta stuff....but it would also have been marked Gobel and the words "I. M. Hummel".
I have never seen a piece of terracotta with the Hummel mark.
Still ,looking for pictures...
Linda C

Thanks for the advice about the pics, I went to photobucket, now I will try to get them here..
o k, if you click on terra cotta figures it should take you to the pictures I took, please let me know if this works. Thanks, Denise

Here is a link that might be useful: terra cotta figures

Nope not Hummels.
Hummels are made and marked Gobel by porcelain works....and a "Hummel" will be marked with Sister Berta's simulated signature.
What you have is a figure that someone made to look like a Hummel, out of what appears to be a very rough plaster of paris type of stuff. Looks to me like it may have been made for a prize at a fair....
anyhow....while it's not a real Hummel figurine, It may be very collectable because of it's very "cheap" aspect....things like that were often thrown away, so yours may be very collectable as ephemera.
Linda C

The pictures depict a very poor quality you'd never find in a Hummel figurine released for general sale. Based on that alone, I'd have to agree with Linda that they aren't. However, you will find disclaimers in pricing books that one may occasionally find Hummel pieces with no known history or standard trademarks. So, pieces exist where you will not find the expected trademarks. You can use them as a general rule, but there are exceptions.

Some of the reference material said Sister Berta actually used water paint to decorate her early terra cotta samples. They would also be much cruder than those done in ceramic. That's why they didn't 'fly' and go into general production.

So, your's are either a very cheap knock-off (most likely) or a very rare item nobody really knows much about. I doubt you could find a dealer or professional who would be able to tell you much about the terra cottas Hummels, they are that rare. I've never seen one and I have a small collection of them.

What you could do, and I have actually done this, if you have any hunch at all that they may be a rare sample is send a picture to the company in Germany. They'll either laugh and not answer, or be excited that someone found a few rarities and respond. Stranger things have happened.

I did that once with a very, very old bottle of French Brandy. A friend of ours brought it over to my house to translate the label. What I read was too good to be true. It was supposedly a blend of fifty year old brandies when it was bottled in the 1930s and had a very crude and amateurish label. I thought it was some sort of practical joke. This man had had the bottle of unopened booze for SIXTY YEARS. It was a tontine between a group of WWII vets who got it back to the states and it was passed along in its pristine condition until the last one of them was the sole survivor. The sole survivor was supposed to break it open and offer up a toast to his dead buddies and ENJOY.

I emailed the company who made it after I found the name on the internet, and the grandson of the proprietor in that timeframe confirmed it was indeed genuine and he said they quit making brandy of that quality many years ago. Alls he said was "enjoy" something very special. It was the best brandy I ever drank in my life and it almost ended up in a dumpster.