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From: Ron
Remote Name: 68.231.50.154
Date: 07/13/2008
Time: 11:07:14 PM
Ken, Liselotte Lopez wrote an article on German Pressed Glass Steins from Sachsenglas - Saxony Glass - in the April 1975 Spinning Wheel antique magazine. She states that the firm was founded by Karl Gottlieb Walther in Ottendorf (a small settlement north of Dresden), Saxony, Germany in 1865. The steins listed in the article, including one with an amber cut glass jewel, were identified from a catalog issued in the early 1900s. She states that production of pressed glass steins ceased in 1973. There are at least four different trademarks, but she was not able to date them. Your trademark is thought to be the oldest though. Since a star pattern usually appears in the bottom of these steins, that may be what you see when you peer into the cut-glass jewel. Assuming your stein has an aged look, I think the best you can say is that it is circa 1900. I think the article on the cut-glass jewels was just stating an era they were popularized and it does not cite a reference. Pressed glass steins are generally not that expensive. Ceramic inserts in the lids or other decorations on the stein may increase their value, but I don't think the cut-glass jewels, regardless of color, would enhance their value. You can get an idea of values of presssed glass steins by looking at some of the past auction results of The Stein Auction Company, see the Links section of this site. Ron