1850-1890 Antique German Lithopane Regimental Stein - 09/04/2007 01:22 AM
Hi Everyone!
My outstanding father (WWII hero and German millitaria enthusiast) left us a collection of steins and from my thorough research and an appraiser I have deduced that this is an Antique 1850-1890 Commerative Imperial German Army 16 Infantry Regimental Porcelain Lithopane Stein with a pewter steeple lid made of a three part mold with a lion foot that stands for Bavaria. It is 10 inches or so high.
The lithopane is of a Bavarian soldier holding a bayonette and reaching his arm up and holding the hand of a woman leaning over a balcony of an inn, bar, or something like it. She could be a bar maid due to her bonnet and blouse. There is also a house or church in the distance and I believe the moon or sun over head.
At the top of the stein it reads 16. Inf.- Rgt.,, Grokherz. Ferdinand v. Toskana 11. Comp. 99/1901 Passan. It has a crest that is outlined in orange and has a dark blue rectangle with a gold lion with a crown in the upper left corner. There is another rectangle that looks like a flag with white on the bottom in the shape of mountains and red above it in the same shape like upside down mountains in the upper right corner. In the lower left corner it has diagonal lines of red and white with an orange line going straight down the center. In the lower right corner it is like a white flag with a light blue lion with a crown inside of it. Lastly in the very center of the crest there are light blue and white diagonal diamond shapes inside of another crest inside the crest. On top of the whole crest is a gold crown.
At the bottom of the crest lay a black helmut with gold in the center, powder keg, shovel, pick, canteen, leather bags and a couple of other things I can not make out.
There is a main larger soldier dressed in a royal blue uniform holding his black helmut with something gold in the center in his left hand possibly waving it in the air and 6 other smaller soldiers in the same uniform doing various things including sitting in front of a fire possibly cooking to the left of the centered crest.
To the right of the centered crest there is one main larger soldier in full royal blue uniform and black helmut with a rifle over his left shoulder and back of his neck sticking straight up in the air. The same soldier has a burly thick mustache that is curled on the ends.
To the right of that soldier there are 6 more soldiers with one way in the background and barely noticeable and another shooting his rifle (target shooting?) while 3 watch and/or are joining in and the last soldier having a sword pointing towards the ground in his right hand also watching the target shooting.
It is hard to read the writing but I believe the words "Boch Leben bie ersten Reservisten im 20. Jahrhundert!" is above the crest. Just below that right side above the crest going around the top of the crown is "In Treue fest." Below the far left soldier with helmut up in the air is I believe "Errinnerung an" and on the other side under the soldier with the rifle behind his neck and the ones target shooting I believe it says "meines Diensrzeir" and the words are on something that looks like an open scroll of paper.
The front of the bottom base has a name which I believe is "Karl Federholzer." The back of the bottom base has I believe a name and address that I can not totally make out, but this is what I think I have made out, "K. Reischubod, Munchen, Dachauerstr. 151."
There also seems to be roughly 64 names written in single file on either side of the stein handle. Some have quotation " marks infront of them and others have "Uffz." "Inf." "Of." "Def or Gef?" and also two of the names seem to have a couple letters that are painted darker.
The letters "DRM" are painted on the lower left corner of the picture of the soldier near the soldiers cooking over the flame almost hidden inside of the grass. There is more writing over the left side picture of soldiers that I believe says, "Soier lake uns raffen und ruh'n Der Folren wird seine schuldigkeif Fzun." and more writing over the right side picture of the soldiers that I believe says, "Es darf uns nichis a m leben hegen, Iben es gilf den feind zu beliegen." There is nothing on the bottom of this lovely lithophane porcelain stein.
This is what the appraiser also wrote and I was wondering if any of you could validate it for me, because I don't quite understand all of it. I was also wondering if anyone could give me a better idea of the year the stein was made rather than the 40 year period of 1850-1890, the maker, and what the words mean LOL! ;-).
"You have a very nice antique lithopane stein. Lithopanes are pictures made in porcelain with clay in layers of different thicknesses, so that one can see a picture when the piece is held up to the light. Germany and France produced most of the antique lithopane steins found today. Yours is German. Porcelain must be used for lithopanes because it is translucent and allows light and shadow to be seen through it. The lid and handle are pewter. Most German lithopane steins were made between 1825 and 1875 or thereabouts, in the Dresden area. Decoration on your stein suggests manufacture sometime between 1850 and 1890. Lithopanes were made with various themes, and yours is a regimental type. The decoration appears to relate to commemorating history which is complex in austria/hungary/germany: By the 1300s Emp. Frederick I Barbarossa held five imperial diets in Wuerzburg as it was by then called... and it was here he married in 1156 to Beatirce of Burgunday. He also raised the Bishops to the rank of Dukes of Franconia. Conrad von Querfurt built a massive keep which became the corner of the castle of the burghers... The Prince-Bishops of the House of Schoenborn built a great number of structures... Formerly bishopric. Member of the Catholic corpus at the Peace of Westphalia (1648). 1802-1803 the territory was seculatized under Bavaria. 1806 - 1814 it is stated it was held by the Hapsburgs of Austria (Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany (Grand Duchy of Toscana). In 1814 "absorbed" by Bavaria.
The decoration on the stein is detailed and colorful, which enhances value. Steins of more than 10 inches in height fetch the highest prices. The slight wear around the base color doesn't effect the values."
If you need more photos please email me at [email protected]. I will be happy to provide all the photos you need ;-)
THANKS again for all your kindness, patience, and great expertise!!!!
Warm regards,
Lesley
My outstanding father (WWII hero and German millitaria enthusiast) left us a collection of steins and from my thorough research and an appraiser I have deduced that this is an Antique 1850-1890 Commerative Imperial German Army 16 Infantry Regimental Porcelain Lithopane Stein with a pewter steeple lid made of a three part mold with a lion foot that stands for Bavaria. It is 10 inches or so high.
The lithopane is of a Bavarian soldier holding a bayonette and reaching his arm up and holding the hand of a woman leaning over a balcony of an inn, bar, or something like it. She could be a bar maid due to her bonnet and blouse. There is also a house or church in the distance and I believe the moon or sun over head.
At the top of the stein it reads 16. Inf.- Rgt.,, Grokherz. Ferdinand v. Toskana 11. Comp. 99/1901 Passan. It has a crest that is outlined in orange and has a dark blue rectangle with a gold lion with a crown in the upper left corner. There is another rectangle that looks like a flag with white on the bottom in the shape of mountains and red above it in the same shape like upside down mountains in the upper right corner. In the lower left corner it has diagonal lines of red and white with an orange line going straight down the center. In the lower right corner it is like a white flag with a light blue lion with a crown inside of it. Lastly in the very center of the crest there are light blue and white diagonal diamond shapes inside of another crest inside the crest. On top of the whole crest is a gold crown.
At the bottom of the crest lay a black helmut with gold in the center, powder keg, shovel, pick, canteen, leather bags and a couple of other things I can not make out.
There is a main larger soldier dressed in a royal blue uniform holding his black helmut with something gold in the center in his left hand possibly waving it in the air and 6 other smaller soldiers in the same uniform doing various things including sitting in front of a fire possibly cooking to the left of the centered crest.
To the right of the centered crest there is one main larger soldier in full royal blue uniform and black helmut with a rifle over his left shoulder and back of his neck sticking straight up in the air. The same soldier has a burly thick mustache that is curled on the ends.
To the right of that soldier there are 6 more soldiers with one way in the background and barely noticeable and another shooting his rifle (target shooting?) while 3 watch and/or are joining in and the last soldier having a sword pointing towards the ground in his right hand also watching the target shooting.
It is hard to read the writing but I believe the words "Boch Leben bie ersten Reservisten im 20. Jahrhundert!" is above the crest. Just below that right side above the crest going around the top of the crown is "In Treue fest." Below the far left soldier with helmut up in the air is I believe "Errinnerung an" and on the other side under the soldier with the rifle behind his neck and the ones target shooting I believe it says "meines Diensrzeir" and the words are on something that looks like an open scroll of paper.
The front of the bottom base has a name which I believe is "Karl Federholzer." The back of the bottom base has I believe a name and address that I can not totally make out, but this is what I think I have made out, "K. Reischubod, Munchen, Dachauerstr. 151."
There also seems to be roughly 64 names written in single file on either side of the stein handle. Some have quotation " marks infront of them and others have "Uffz." "Inf." "Of." "Def or Gef?" and also two of the names seem to have a couple letters that are painted darker.
The letters "DRM" are painted on the lower left corner of the picture of the soldier near the soldiers cooking over the flame almost hidden inside of the grass. There is more writing over the left side picture of soldiers that I believe says, "Soier lake uns raffen und ruh'n Der Folren wird seine schuldigkeif Fzun." and more writing over the right side picture of the soldiers that I believe says, "Es darf uns nichis a m leben hegen, Iben es gilf den feind zu beliegen." There is nothing on the bottom of this lovely lithophane porcelain stein.
This is what the appraiser also wrote and I was wondering if any of you could validate it for me, because I don't quite understand all of it. I was also wondering if anyone could give me a better idea of the year the stein was made rather than the 40 year period of 1850-1890, the maker, and what the words mean LOL! ;-).
"You have a very nice antique lithopane stein. Lithopanes are pictures made in porcelain with clay in layers of different thicknesses, so that one can see a picture when the piece is held up to the light. Germany and France produced most of the antique lithopane steins found today. Yours is German. Porcelain must be used for lithopanes because it is translucent and allows light and shadow to be seen through it. The lid and handle are pewter. Most German lithopane steins were made between 1825 and 1875 or thereabouts, in the Dresden area. Decoration on your stein suggests manufacture sometime between 1850 and 1890. Lithopanes were made with various themes, and yours is a regimental type. The decoration appears to relate to commemorating history which is complex in austria/hungary/germany: By the 1300s Emp. Frederick I Barbarossa held five imperial diets in Wuerzburg as it was by then called... and it was here he married in 1156 to Beatirce of Burgunday. He also raised the Bishops to the rank of Dukes of Franconia. Conrad von Querfurt built a massive keep which became the corner of the castle of the burghers... The Prince-Bishops of the House of Schoenborn built a great number of structures... Formerly bishopric. Member of the Catholic corpus at the Peace of Westphalia (1648). 1802-1803 the territory was seculatized under Bavaria. 1806 - 1814 it is stated it was held by the Hapsburgs of Austria (Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany (Grand Duchy of Toscana). In 1814 "absorbed" by Bavaria.
The decoration on the stein is detailed and colorful, which enhances value. Steins of more than 10 inches in height fetch the highest prices. The slight wear around the base color doesn't effect the values."
If you need more photos please email me at [email protected]. I will be happy to provide all the photos you need ;-)
THANKS again for all your kindness, patience, and great expertise!!!!
Warm regards,
Lesley