This vintage Hummel #185’Accordion Boy’ is a beautifully painted 5.5 inch figurine. It has been carefully kept and is in pristine condition, with no repairs, chips, cracks, or crazing. The’M I Hummel’ signature is impressed in the base. The Stylized Bee, sometimes abbreviated as Sty-Bee, was a bee with sharp angular wings; the wing tips are parallel with the top of the V. ABOUT HUMMELS. Hummels are the result of a partnership between Sister Maria Innocentina Hummel, Franz Goebel and The Convent of the Siessen in the 1930’s. The sketch art of Sister Maria Innocentia began to appear on in the 1930s in Germany and Switzerland, mostly pastoral drawings of children. Around 1934 porcelain maker Franz Goebel saw the drawings and thought they could be turned into porcelain figurines. The agreement with Goebel was that the sister would have final approval over every figurine and that it would be incised with her signature. To this day, each Hummel must be approved by the Convent of Siessen. These figures became extremely popular in the U. Especially with German immigrants on the East Coast. The popularity of the Hummel continued to grow around the end of World War II when many American soldiers overseas saw the Hummel as a great gift to send home to their mothers and sweethearts.