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From: John
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Hi Shannon, About 10 years ago David Harr and I both noticed that there were three different capacity marks on steins marked HR. We were both researching the same factory. Actually David was helping Mike Wald research the HR factory when he made this discovery. We also recognised that two of the capacity marks were used by two other factories, Gerz and Merkelbach & Wick. We got together on this subject at the 1998 Boston convention and have been assembling a data base of capacity marks ever since. It must be understood that the study only encompasses the years from 1868 when the Hanke factory was founded to about 1910 when things get very confusing due to business failures and inventories of molds changing hands and new companies being formed. So, the study includes the years from 1868-1910. The problem is compounded by factories such as HR having other factories make steins for them(Gerz & Merkelbach and Wick) while at the same time they were making steins for T.W. and L.B.& C., with each factory using their own capacity mark. Then there were the Eulerei or small family owned factories, cottage industry. All making steins with capacity marks, but seldom if ever any factory marks. Some of the large factories used a number of different capacity marks but these marks were used only by that factory. For example, the Simon Peter Gerz 0,5 L. capacity was never used by any other factory. It will be many years before this study ends and we may never be able to identify the marks used by the various Eulerei.