By Kurt Hammer Authentic beer stein with German towns + city crests. W Germany.

Kurt Hammer Authentic beer stein with German towns and city crests. White+blue pewter lid / Black Forest bar decor / Vintage Brewerania —circa ~ 1970s —purchased in Germany. Hammer was born on the 30th March 1926 in Tettau, Bavaria. There he trained at the Königlichen privilegierten Porzellanfabrik, and educated at the Fachschüle fur Porzellan in Selb. In 1955 he founded his own glass and porcelain decoration factory in Munich, and in 1972, built a larger factory in Schondorf am Ammersee, He died on 21st March 2010. Old manufacturers began producing stoneware steins with pewter lids after the invention of stoneware. The German stein was formally recognized as a European product in the 19th century. The most typical were stoneware items with a stein lid that was always rigidly fixed. Authentic German steins have patriotic scenes and Folk tales as popular designs for carved steins’ bodies.