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Date: 03/02/2004
Time: 06:12:50 AM
Tony — Unschooled eBay sellers often make mistakes similar to the one you've noted. This is because Girmscheid steins sometimes carried a mark that can easily be mistaken for the Mettlach abbey tower or "castle" mark. The Girmschied mark was apparently designed to represent the company's factory in what is now Höhr-Grenzhausen. You can see both marks in the Beer Stein Library's introductory articles to the Mettlach and Girmscheid catalogs. Note that the banner across the Girmscheid mark reads "Germany" rather than "Mettlach".