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Your shaving basin appears to be Spanish Colonial, dating from the late 17th or early ... could fetch a significantly higher price. A. Your stein was sold by Joseph M. Mayer of Munich, Germany ...
WHAT: Old and authentic German beer steins are popular with collectors largely because many tell a story and were made in wide variety. The regimental stein shown with this column is just one ...
There’s an entire world out there for which the lure of vintage, one-of-a-kind German steins has nothing to do with beer, ales or lagers ... shapes and forms — some dating back hundreds ...
The history of the beer stein can be traced to the 14th century when German laws required drinking ... but additional identification and dating can be accomplished through careful study of the ...
The beer's name comes from the Oktoberfest Volksfest held in Munich, Germany every year. Dating back to 1811 ... in lederhosen and carrying around beer steins. In those images, the beer is ...
It was a case of the tell-tale beer stein. A woman in Maryland has finally been absolved of her guilt over stealing a beer stein during a trip to Germany — a trip she took in 1965, when she was ...
The German waiter set a reputed world record for carrying beer. He carried 27 full beer steins, all at once, to a table 131 feet away. Video shows him pressing the glasses together in one great ...
There's even a word for it – bierernst – which means "deadly serious" and translates literally as "beer serious." This sober attitude applies particularly to the German beer purity law known ...
Although Stein is a German word (meaning “stone”), it is not a term commonly applied to a beer glass or container in the German-speaking world. At the Munich Oktoberfest, you are far more ...