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From: John
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According to Albert Jacob Thewalt, the first four years the company was in business, 1893, 1894, 95 and 96, they only produced stoneware items for medical and pharmaceutical use. The first Thewalt beer steins were produced in 1897 after Thewalt hired Willhelm Kamp as their chief designer. Which means that the earliest date a stein would have been made with this mark was 1897. At the 2000, SCI Convention in Houston Texas, Albert Thewalt told me that this early factory logo was actually used well into the 20th century. All of you who have Thewalt steins you thought were manufactured between 1893 and 1896 must adjust your thinking and now date those steins from 1897 to at least 1907 and possibly 1914 when the export market went away and Thewalt suspended stein production due to the First World War. Your stein would probably sell at auction for under $50.