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From: Walt Vogdes
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Hi, Linda. Let me correct a couple of terms, and then I'll tell you what I think you have. First, collectors generally reserve the word "stein" for pieces which have a lid. Without a lid it is simply referred to as a mug. (If there is evidence that it originally had - or was intended to have - a lid, it can be referred to as a lidless stein.) The decoration you describe is of a coat of arms (not a crest, which is the device which sometimes appears mounted above the shield in a coat of arms). Many coats of arms were handpainted, as I suspect this one was. I can't interpret the arms themselves, but they were for a bowling (Kegel) club. As you know, the stein was made by Wick-Werke. The handwritten name and address is that of the decorator who painted the arms.
Without a lid, and since the arms are for what is in all likelihood a very localized association of bowlers, the piece will have little interest to most stein collectors, but might draw attention from someone in the town in Germany where the club was active.