During his tenure with Goebel he also completed his formal education and received his Masters Degree in the Ceramic Arts with a focus on ceramic art history, technology, manufacture, restoration and teaching. Since 1980 he has represented W. Goebel Porzellanfabrik at many conventions, galleries and stores in Europe and the United States, demonstrating the skills required to manufacture M.I. Hummel figurines to the interested collector. Hans still maintains a working relationship with the factory in Germany and Goebel North America in Pennington, New Jersey. All work is performed at the Peekskill, New York studio. These are just a few of the variables encountered during the repair of a damaged collectible and since this type of work is inherently difficult, tidious and time consuming all repairs will be estimated on a case to case basis.
Estimates are free of charge and without obligation to have any work done.
However, in some cases it may happen that the repair cost exceeds the actual monetary value of the figurine and we will advise you if that is the case. The final decision is always yours. Most repairs will take about 3 - 4 hours, plus time for staging, prepping, firing, drying and other rest times. However, since we must introduce figurines in batches of 100 to 150 pieces at a time to the individual repair steps, it may take several weeks or months to complete a batch. This is the only way to bring the repair cost to an affordable level.