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From: Ron
Remote Name: 68.0.177.189
Date: 09/24/2012
Time: 05:24:41 PM
Jess, This is a common pottery souvenir stein. It appears to be modern and does not have much value for someone collecting antique beer steins, probably about $20 maximum. The Beer Stein Library has the following for the text: “Alt Heidelberg du feine, du Stadt an Ehren reich, am Neckar und am Rhein, keine andre kommt dir gleich.” (Old Heidelberg you fine city, rich in honors, on the Neckar and Rhine, no other can equal you.) Text is taken from an old German poem honoring Heidelberg, written in 1853 by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel and set to music in 1872 by Weise von Zimmerman Ron