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From: Walt Vogdes
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I very much doubt it, but sure hope it turns up. While there are a number of old catalogs known, most of them - for some unknown reason - don't carry a date! So if you are fortunate enough to find your steins in such a catalog, unless you can date some of the other items in the catalog, you will not find the answer you are seeking.
Your question also touches on another trap that stein collectors fall into. Particular models were generally produced over a period of years, yet we tend to associate the year of first production or the year of the design with the date of all of steins of that model. There are only two ways to avoid this difficulty - by a trademark which is clearly later than the date of first production, or even more specific, by finding the date of manufacture on the stein itself, a la the Mettlach dating code. But if you have two Mettlach steins, one dated 1894 and the second dated 1904, by and large no one will care about this fine distinction unless there is some trait in the overall design of the stein which makes it meaningful.