There were also piles of old photographs and negatives in the house, some of them of the contents of the home including this one of this stein collection which I guess was taken in the late 1940 or 1950s:
I would really be interested in finding out what the very tall pitcher is sitting in the old period photo is. It has a number “101” on it’s bottom, but I have not found any other marks and I did not see it in any of the catalogs this website has online.