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by Walt Vogdes This short article about an unusual Munich Child stein appeared in two parts in Prosit of December 1999 and March 2000. |
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![]() [March 2000] The
unusual Doulton stein depicting a Münchner Kindl prompted Bernard
"Bunny" Harrison of Slaugham, West Sussex, England, to contact the
Doulton Museum for information. Ms. Julie McKeown, Curator of the Sir Henry
Doulton Gallery replies: "I was interested to see the photographs of the
half-litre stein bearing the Munich Child motif on a stein made by Doulton &
Co. at Lambeth for Thiery & Breul. I have certainly never come across this
piece before and neither is its manufacture recorded in what few archival
documents we have relating to the Lambeth factory. The backstamp was one used
between c1858 and 1891, and the style of the stein certainly looks earlier
rather than later.
[Update - Sept. 2004] A one-line entry appears in the Verzeichniß Sämmtlicher Mitglieder des Kunstgewerbevereins in München für 1876/77 (Register of All Members of the Craftworker Associations in Munich in 1876/77): Thierry & Breul, Großhandlung. (Thierry & Breul, Wholesaler) This firm was apparently engaged as an importer and middleman in the retail industry. They presumably ordered the production of this stein by Doulton, who impressed the firm's name into the base.
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