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Antique Early Pewter Engraved German Beer Stein Walzenkrug Saxonian dat. 1798
Antique Early Pewter Engraved German Beer Stein Walzenkrug Saxonian dat. : This very interesting and impressive beer stein was made in Germany in the early 1800s. It is a so-called “Walzenkrug” – a cylindrical form beer drinking vessel that was very popular in 1700s. The thumblift is a hollow ball – please note that the hollow balls for the thumblift is a very good sign of authenticity. They never made solid balls for the thumblift before 1850 – 1860 and there is no repros with hollow balls – I guess it is very hard to reproduce. The form of the base and the lid is usually associated with Saxonian pewter tradition. The stein is elaborately engraved all over. It has a large Saxonian Coat-of-Arms engraved on the front with Saxonian Royal crown and floral de corations on the sides. Beautiful and skillful work of art. The lid is engraved with initials F. G. Z. The stein is in a very good condition – it has some very minimal dings and a short split in the lid where the tang connect but no serious damage whatsoever – a rare condition for beer steins this old. The stein is large and impressive, it is 9.75 tall, about 1L capacity. Height: 9.75 in. Title: Antique Pewter German Beer Stein Wlazenkrug Saxonian c. Get Supersized Images & Free Image Hosting. Attention Sellers – Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva. Com. Track Page Views With.
Antique Early Pewter German Beer Stein Walzenkrug Saxonian dat. 1815
Antique Early Pewter German Beer Stein Walzenkrug Saxonian dat. Hello, my dear customers! I will be out of the country from September 2nd to September 12th. Please keep this in mind! This very interesting and impressive beer stein was made in Germany in the early 1800s. It is a so-called “Walzenkrug” – a cylindrical form beer drinking vessel that was very popular in the 1700s. The thumblift is a hollow ball – please note that the hollow balls for the thumblift are a very good sign of authenticity. They never made solid balls for the thumblifts before 1850 – 1860 and there are no repros with hollow balls – I guess it is very hard to reproduce. The stein shows a plain cylindrical body with no decorations. This cylindrical body with a broad hollow base and tapered lid is associated with the Saxonian pewter tradition. For about 150 years Saxonian pewterers from Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz, and other Saxonian towns were making more or less similar pewter steins that were very popular all over Germany from the early 1700s till the 1850s. The lid is engraved with the initials J. The inside of the lid shows pewter hallmarks. These hallmarks belong to a pewterer named Johann Gottfried Bohme who worked in the Saxonian town of Dippoldiswalde in the 1700s and early 1800s. Please note that the German pewter marks of the 1700s – first half of the 1800s usually (but not necessarily always) consisted of two identical marks for a town and one personal master pewterer’s mark. The master mark for J. Bohme shows the date of 1708. This is supposed to be the date of the pewter shop establishment. However, about 50% of German master pewter marks for the period show this date. I don’t know why they put this date and the others put real dates into their marks. Probably, 1708 was the date of the pewter marking law and some of the pewterers wanted to show that their shops were started at the very beginning. The stein is in great condition – it has some very minimal dings and scratches unavoidable for the soft metal as pewter, but no breaks, tears or repairs – a rare condition for beer steins this old. The stein is large and impressive, it is 9.5 tall to the top of the thumblift, 1L capacity. Condition: Very good – no damage, no repairs, some minor dings and scratches. Height: 9.5 in. Title: Antique Pewter German Beer Stein Wlazenkrug Saxonian c. Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing. Track Page Views With.
Large Antique Early German Beer Stein Bartmann Bellarmine Frechen c. 1600s
Antique Large Very Early German Beer Stein Bartmann Bellarmine Frechen circa 1600s. Hello, my dear customers! I will be out of the country from September 2nd to September 12th. Please keep this in mind! This beer stein is one of the oldest beer drinking vessels. It dates back to the years of 1600s and was made in the town of Frechen – one of the most important centers of early stoneware production in Germany. The tradition of “Bartmann” or “Bearded man” beer steins began in mid 1400s in the town of Cologne – another important stoneware production center in Renaissance period Germany. It became so popular that every town in Rheinland that was involved in pottery produced their own version for almost two hundred years. There are very similar Bartmann beer steins produced in Raeren, Siegburg, etc. The stein is made of brown saltglazed stoneware. The bearded face was made on a separate medallion and applied. There is also another applied medallion at the center of the stein. The bearded man steins from Frechen are the most classical of all the Bartmann pieces. They were produced for over a century and exported in large quantities to England, Scandinavia and the New World. The stein is in excellent condition for about 300 – 350 years old. Most of the Bartmannskruege are repaired or restored. This one has no structural damage and no repairs and no major cracks. There are some glaze chipping spot in the body and some minor surface crazing. Just very minor age-related wear. Other than that – no problems. This size is larger than usual and the condition is extremely rare. This is a beautiful and very impressive piece that has about 400 years behind it! I guarantee my description and my dating. I have attached a picture from the late Johannes Vogt beer stein catalog – it shows a very similar stein. The stein is large and heavy, it stands 13 tall (33 cm), 6 lb of weight. Condition: Excellent (see description). Get images that make Supersized seem small. Track Page Views With.
Pair of Antique Early German Stoneware Westerwald Beer Steins c. Late 1700s
Pair of Antique Early German Stoneware Westerwald Beer Steins c. The beer steins made before 1850 fall into the “Early” category in terms of beer stein collecting. They are quite rare – at that time, before the Industrial Revolution, the production was all manual. Every stein made in the early period was unique, decorated by hand, and rarely replicated. These two beautiful steins were made in the 1780s – 1790s, they are guaranteed old give or take 10 years. They were made in a traditional style of grey stoneware with cobalt-blue glaze. These are very traditional beer-drinking vessels – a type that was produced for centuries, from the mid-1600s to the mid-1800s. The production of saltglazed stoneware beer steins in the Westerwald region of Germany reached the highest quality by the end of the 18th century. The steins are decorated with stylized floral decorations. The decorations are etched into the clay with a sharp instrument. The steins are also glazed with cobalt-blue glaze, fired, and saltglazed. Both steins have no lids – it looks like they were unlidded from the beginning or the lids were removed at some point. Both steins have no cracks, major chips, or repairs. The stein on the right has a small chip on the upper rim, the one on the left is in excellent condition. The inscriptions on the bottom are the museum notes and inventory numbers from the Schlossmuseum. They could be easily removed if needed. The taller stein is 6″ tall 0.75 L capacity, the other one is 5.5″ tall, 0.5L capacity. Condition: One excellent, one w/small chip. Height: taller 6 in. Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing. Track Page Views With.
Antique Early German Brown Earthenware Beer Stein Melonenkrug Bunzlau c. 1750
Antique Early German Brown Earthenware Beer Stein Melonenkrug Bunzlau c. Hello, my dear customers! I will be out of the country from September 2nd to September 12th. Please keep this in mind! Presented is a rare example of early German pottery. This high-fired earthenware brown-glazed beer stein was made in Bunzlau – a town in Lower Silesia in the mid-1700s. In fact, all the pottery production from small towns in Lower Silesia is called “Bunzlau” Every German town and every region that was known to make pottery had its own unique technologies and trade secrets. That’s why we can determine where a particular piece was made based on the appearance, style, and type of the pottery. The steins of this kind were called “Melonenkrug” or “Melon-shaped steins” because of their round shape and vertical or diagonal ribs. These ribs were made by hand from the inside initially and later with the help of a special instrument. The lead-based brown glaze was typical for Bunzlau. “Melon-shaped steins faded out of fashion after 1750″, -writes Beatrix Adler in her book “Early Stoneware Steins” based on Les Paul’s collection. “The last date we can find on a pewter mount is 1757″. The pewter lid is dome-shaped with a hollow ball thumblift. The inside of the lid is stamped with pewter marks that belong to Joahim Heinrick Kampffer, a pewterer in the town of Sagan in Lower Silesia, now Zagan in Poland. He was active in mid-1700s and died in 1771. The stein is large and impressive – it stands 9 tall to the top of the thumblif, with approx. 1.5 Liter capacity. A very similar, almost identical stein is featured in Gery Kirsner’s “The Beer Stein Book” on page 40. The stein is in good condition, the appearance is excellent. There are some small chips on the upper lip covered by the lid but no large chips, cracks, or repairs. The lid has the hinge rings broken – it could be separated from the stein. This is a very good condition overall for a stein over 250 years old (see pics). It is very impressive and elegant and a true historical piece that carries over 200 years of both culture and technology. I guarantee the authenticity. Condition: Minor chips, the hinge has broken rings. Get Supersized Images & Free Image Hosting. Attention Sellers – Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva. Com. Track Page Views With.
Antique Early German/Austrian Faience Beer Stein Gmunden Brotherly Drink c. 1820s
Antique Early German/Austrian Faience Beer Stein – Gmunden Brotherly Drinking c. Hello, my dear customers! I will be out of the country from September 2nd to September 12th. Please keep this in mind! The stein was made in the factory of Gmunden – now it’s a small town in north Austria that was once famous for faience production. The stein is made of typical Gmunden reddish clay with tin-based white glaze. It is decorated with hand-painted decorations showing a merry man waving his hat and holding a beer stein in his other hand. I could not decipher the inscription on the top completely, but it looks like the man is asking his brothers in drinks to drink with him. It was painted with very typical for Gmunden green and yellow colors with magenta outlines. The factories in the Gmunden area were producing faience beer steins much longer than the rest of the faience factories in Germany. The majority of German and Austrian faience factories were closed by the late 1700s – early 1800s. Very few factories survived after 1850 – Schrezheim, for instance, and Gmunden as well. The stein has a flat pewter lid with a five-ring closed-type hinge and an urn-shaped thumblift – typical for the early-1800s. The stein is in a good condition with minor chipping on the upper and lower rims and a couple of short tight hairlines. It stands 9.25 tall to the top of the thumblift, about 1 L capacity. The steins on the last 2 pictures are not for sale, it’s just a sample. Condition: Good – see description. Height: 9.25 in. Title: Antique Austrian Faience Beer Stein – Gmunden c. Get Supersized Images & Free Image Hosting. Attention Sellers – Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva. Com. Track Page Views With.
Antique Very Early German Stoneware Beer Stein Rheinland Siegburg c. 1500s
Antique Very Early Saltglazed Stoneware Beer Stein – Rheinland Siegburg c. Hello, my dear customers! I will be out of the country from September 2nd to September 12th. Please keep this in mind! Presented is a very old German beer stein that dates back to 1400s – 1600s and was made in the “Rhineland” – the region in Germany by the river Rhine where traditionally the early stoneware production took place. The most important towns to produce the stoneware were Cologne, Siegburg, Frechen, and Raeren. This simple and even primitive beer stein was made in the town of Siegburg – one of the German oldest and productive pottery centers. The beginning of pottery production go back to 12th century. It was in 14th century when a transition from earthenware and proto-stoneware took place, culminating in fully vitrified stoneware by the end of the 15th century. The salt glaze was successfully used throughout the 16th century. The stein presented is made of light brown unglazed stoneware with no decorations. It has a dent and a hole in the side. It happened because the potters were trying to squeeze as many steins as possible into the kiln – there are many similar pieces with dents (see my pics). However, this one has a hole as well and was probably a refuse – that’s why it shows no other damage. The potters in Rhineland area were making beer drinking wares in amazing quantities. They were exporting them to the Netherlands and from there to England and the rest of the Europe and Americas. They were inexpensive and practical. Please take a look at my pics! Also, I’ve found very similar stoneware jugs in Peter Breugel the Elder painting “Peasant Wedding” from 1567. Some are slightly different, some are exactly the same. And finally, I have a couple of pics from a ceramics museum in Cologne – it shows some very similar pieces – and with the dents on the sides! Condition: a dent with a whole on the side. Height: 6.25 in. Get Supersized Images & Free Image Hosting. Attention Sellers – Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva. Com. Track Page Views With.
Antique Early Pewter Engraved German Beer Stein Walzenkrug Saxonian dat. 1840
Antique Early Pewter Engraved German Beer Stein Walzenkrug Saxonian dat. Description: This very interesting and impressive beer stein was made in Germany in the early 1800s. It is a so-called “Walzenkrug” – a cylindrical form beer drinking vessel that was very popular in the 1700s. The thumblift is a hollow ball – please note that the hollow balls for the thumblift is a very good sign of authenticity. They never made solid balls for the thumblift before 1850 – 1860 and there are no repros with hollow balls – I guess it is very hard to reproduce. The stein is elaborately engraved all over. It shows a presentation inscription in the front medallion made with a beautiful Biedermeier period script: ” Nimm difs Geschenk aus Freundschaft-Hand zu Ehren Deinen Ehefant” (Accept the gift from the hand of friendship in honor of your spouse) The sides are engraved with floral de corations. Beautiful and skillful work of art. This cylindrical body with a broad hollow base and tapered lid is associated with the Saxonian pewter tradition. For about 150 years Saxonian pewterers from Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz, and other Saxonian towns were making more or less similar pewter steins that were very popular all over Germany from the early 1700s till the 1850s. The lid is engraved with the initials J. C. Fm. The inside of the lid shows pewter hallmarks. These hallmarks belong to a pewterer named Johann Christian Gottfried Richter who worked in the Saxonian town of Penig since 1803. There is another engraving on the lid – initials C. And date 11.12.1904. It was made for a new owner of the stein. The stein is in great condition – it has some very minimal dings and scratches unavoidable for the soft metal as pewter, but no breaks, tears or repairs – a rare condition for beer steins this old. The stein is large and impressive, it is 10 tall, 1L capacity. Condition: Very good – no damage, no repairs, some minor dings and scratches. Title: Antique Pewter German Beer Stein Wlazenkrug Saxonian c. Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing. Track Page Views With.
Antique Early German Westerwald Stoneware Beer Stein Walzenkrug c. Late 1700s
Antique Early German Westerwald Stoneware Beer Stein Walzenkrug circa late 1700s. Description: The beer steins made before 1800 are quite rare – at that time, before the industrial revolution, the production was all manual. Every stein made in the early period was unique, decorated by hand and rarely replicated. This beautiful stein was made in the late 1700s. It is made in a very traditional style of gray stoneware with cobalt-blue glaze. This is a classical beer drinking vessel called “Walzenkrug” or “Cylindrical” stein – a type that was produced for over centuries, from the mid-1600s to the mid-1800s. The production of saltglazed stoneware beer steins in the Westerwald region of Germany reached the highest quality by the mid-18th century. The center and the sides of the stein shows a very simple but nice floral decor. The decorations are incised into the wet clay with a sharp instrument, glazed with cobalt-blue glaze, fired and saltglazed. The lid is pewter with hollow ball thumblift. The hinge is slightly different from the common in the late 1700s closed type 5-ring hinges. It is a 3 ring hinge, and I probably the original hinge was broken and replaced some long time ago. The lid itself is most likely original. It shows some repairs on the inside, which is in line with the hinge being replaced. The lid shows pewter touch marks consistent with the late 1700s date. The stein’s body is in excellent shape – there are no major chips, cracks or repairs whatsoever. This is a rare condition for a stoneware item this old. The stein is 8.5 tall to the top of the thumblift, about 1L capacity. I guarantee the authenticity. Condition: Body excellent pewter repaired. Height: 8.5 in. Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing. Track Page Views With.
Antique Early German Brown Earthenware Beer Stein Birnkrug Bunzlau dat. 1781
Antique Early German Brown Earthenware Beer Stein Birnkrug Bunzlau dated 1781. Description: In the next few days I will be posting a small collection of three very similar Bunzlau beer steins that differ only in size. This one is the middle in size. Presented is a rare example of early German pottery made around the late-1700s. This high-fired earthenware brown-glazed beer stein was made in Bunzlau – a town in Lower Silesia. In fact, all the pottery production from small towns in Lower Silesia is called “Bunzlau” Every German region and almost every town that was known to make pottery had its own unique technologies and trade secrets. That’s why we can determine where a particular piece was made based on the appearance, style, and type of the pottery. The steins of this kind were called “Birnkruge” or “Pear-shaped steins” because of their pear-like shape They are glazed with glossy lead-based chocolate-brown glaze that was typical (and unique) for Bunzlau. The pewter lid is dome-shaped with a hollow ball thumblift. The pewter foot ring was intended to support the pedestal from chipping, the handle strap supports the handle and is very typical for Bunzlau Birnkruge. The lid is engraved with the original owner’s initials: F. Please note – this is the original engraving, stein was made in 1781 or a little earlier. The stein is large and impressive – it stands 12 tall to the top of the thumblift, with approx. Over 2 Liter capacity. A very similar but smaller stein is featured in Gary Kirsner’s “The Beer Stein Book” on page 40 pic. The stein is in almost excellent condition, and the appearance is great. There is a small crack in the pedestal that is secured by the foot ring. Otherwise there are no cracks or chips or any other repairs. Some age-related glaze and pewter wear only. This is a fantastic condition overall for a stein over 200 years old. It is very impressive and elegant and a true historical piece that carries almost 250 years of both culture and technology. Condition: Excellent with small chip at the foot secured by foot ring. Get images that make Supersized seem small. Track Page Views With.
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