Clay elephant figurine redux

I know some of you helped me with this some years ago, but in the interim, I moved from one room to another, and the notebook with that info (and the info for many other things) was misplaced.
Fidbald had some ideas, but now that I am ready to explore them, I have no idea what he said.

It's a small thing - only about 4.5" tall.
I have sown two photos of the bottom thinking one might be better than the other.
The *stuff* on the body is just very old sticker or tape residue.
I tried to delete the duplicate photo - don't why it won't go away.

 

The writing looks to me like J M Co, Grossen, Linden.

 

I *think* the name is of a German city but can not, for the life of me, remember what it was.
Old age stinks.

 

Groosen Linden shows up on Google as a place and as a train station.

 

Ah, so it does! Thank you!
I will see if I can find anything in that direction.

 

Hi, there seems to have been a ceramic manufacture in Grossen Linden in Hessen, Germany that had that name, Imco Hessische Keramische Industrie GmbH, around 1925-1928.
Mat

 

Thank you! Hopefully, I am getting closer.

 

Poking around I found this . . .
http://www.lot-tissimo.com/de/i/330...ufaktur-ag-grosen-linden-1914-1925-roetlicher

It came from a forum question/answer . . .
http://translate.google.com/transla...nfo/archive/index.php/t-9739.html&prev=search

Alas, it doesn't show a photo of the mark.

 

The manufacturer of the figure in the first link is the same, they changed the name around 1925. I found another source stating that Imco existed from 1926-1930 and was a producer of art pottery.

 

Between Bob & you, that is the most info I have ever found!
"Thank you" to both of you.