662 ea. Collectible Antique Steins Types Makers Dates Values / Book

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662 each collectible steins with identifying captions highlight this in-depth pictorial guide to antique steins. This book includes the advice and information most needed by collectors:  characteristics of types, where to find good buys, how to recognize quality, ways to market those you want to sell—and a price-guide current for date of publication.
ANTIQUE STEINS: A COLLECTORS’ GUIDE
by James R. Stevenson, Cornwall Books, NJ, 1982.
Originating in Germany in the 16th century, “stoneware and pottery steins were handmade from the readily available clay that is so plentiful in Germany.  The seventeenth-century Kreussen pottery steins, fired red and coated with a brown glaze, are of historical interest only.  In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, relief designs appeared, and the steins became more attractive.  During the eighteenth century, interest in steins spread throughout Europe; the period of their greatest popularity was the second half of the nineteenth century, when the classic Mettlach steins, perhaps the most prized by collectors, were produced.  Steins made form many kinds of materials—glass, salt-glaze pottery, porcelain, silver, pewter, copper, ivory, stoneware, and faience—are valued for their intrinsic beauty as well as their historical interest.  The detail work in the Mettlach etched steins, which depict figures hunting, riding, bowling, dancing, drinking, singing, or courting, is truly great art.  The so-called character steins are appreciated for their expressions—imagine a happy turnip or a sad radish, a drunken monkey, a gentleman fox, a smiling Munich child, a grinning monk, or a wise owl.  Porcelain and ivory steins, with their stunning and detailed relief, show evidence of fine workmanship.  The human figures and animals in many pewter relief steins are exceptional for their realism.  The hand-painted steins depicting military, occupational, and other scenes are popular varieties that often exhibit high quality.  And the amber, ruby-red green, cranberry, and cobalt blue glass steins, often with scenes etched into the bodies, are particularly attractive.” The photography is superb and the coverage comprehensive; here is an ideal addition to the reference library of stein collectors, or anyone who wants to understand an existing collection better.
8.6“ x 11.25“ hardback with dust cover in very good condition.  162 pages.
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