HUMMEL HUMMEL MORS Man w Buckets VINTAGE Figural Bottle DECANTER w shot glasses

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Up for auction is this charming figural decanter depicting the HUMMEL HUMMEL MORS man carrying his buckets. The "buckets" are actually shot glasses and the man's head is the corked stopper to the bottle. The top of the hat has the raised word: MORS. The man stands on a round base that is marked with the raised words: HUMMEL-HUMMEL. This painted porcelain piece is marked on the bottom of the decanter with the impressed number "7343". The decanter measures approximately 7 3/4" tall. Each shot bucket has the raised word "Hummel" on one side and can be unhooked from the thin wire that the man is holding. The decanter is in good condition with no cracks or chips; however, PLEASE NOTE: one of the buckets has a small chip and 2 tiny fleabites along the top rim (see photo...) (For those that don't know--my research, as copied from Wikipedia, revealed: Hummel Hummel is a traditional Hamburg greeting. The reply is Mors, Mors! The greeting goes back to the 19th Century and a cantankerous water carrier called Johann Wilhelm Bentz, known as Hans Hummel (born 21 January 1787, died 15 March 1854).As Hummel would carry water through the streets, the children would run behind him shouting "Hummel, Hummel!" in order to annoy him. Hummel would shout back "Mors, Mors!", an abbreviation of either "klei di an'n mors!" (go scratch your a**e! or "Klei read more

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