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From: Walt Vogdes
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I'll tell you what I have learned while trying to figure this out, but you'll have to make your own conclusion.
Like John, I question whether this is a factory mark. In the 18th century while the marks themselves might be complicated or unusual, their execution - particulary the lettering - was normally pretty straightforward, sometime clumsy. The double-stroke of the lettering just doesn't look like what I would expect.
However, in the book "Fayencen" of the Battenberg series, Gert Nagel shows a WD mark from the Wiesbaden factory, which may have led the seller of this stein to list that as the stein's origin. One problem - the mark he shows is different. The W and the D are conjoined (combining the right leg of the W with the vertical stroke of the D), the two middle strokes of the W cross over each other, and the letters are simply formed.
So, I dunno.