Bring the charming craftsmanship of Hummel figurines to your home with this Star Gazer 2000 Millennium Plate. Handcrafted at the world's only authorized producer of Hummel designs, this special Millennium Edition plate bears a special 60th Anniversary backstamp honoring Hummel no.132, the 'Star Gazer' figurine which was first created in 1939. It has an incised 1999 copyright date and (TM8) trademark. Every piece is back-stamped by Goebel and carries the M.I. Hummel signature. M.I. Hummel products are the result of a successful partnership between W. Goebel Porzellanfabrik (German for porcelain factory) and the talented German artist, Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel. Her paintings of youthful innocence have been transformed by the master artists of the Goebel factory into three-dimensional works of art. Every new Hummel figurine is created using a painstaking process involving over 700 hand operations with many quality checkpoints. Don't let this one pass you by!