Category: Guest Writers Articles
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Guest writer’s articles: “Modern Brewery Character Steins (charted.)” – by Jerry Berg
Corona Octopus Character Jerry Berg , of the “Carolina Steiner’s” (and SCI) recently came to a “Gambrinus Stein (Collecting) Club” meeting held in Maryland and gave an excellent talk on newer Brewery Character Steins. I asked him if I could publish his well documented handout, and he agreed. Thanks again go to Mr. Berg for all he has done for beer steins collectors…
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Guest writer’s articles: Ken’s real life story; “A Beer Stein by the Railroad Tracks.”
One of the benefits of having a web site such has mine is that one gets some very different e-mails about old beer steins, of course most often they are questions. This is one that turned out to be, what I thought to be so interesting and intriguing that with Ken’s permission, I dedicated a page to…
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Guest writer’s articles: “US Military Steins from ‘The Cold War’ Era” – by Norman Paratore
Norman is a member of the “Gambrinus Stein (Collecting) Club ” of Virginia, Maryland and DC, and of SCI. (With a little personal USAF Military history and trivia thrown in.) From all indications, there is a huge and growing interest in military steins bought by US Servicemen and women, mostly who served in Germany, and…
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Guest writer’s articles:”The Beginnings of Ruby Glass.” – by Judy Stuart
A S.C.I. member and member of Gambrinus Stein (Collecting) Club of Virginia, Maryland and DC. As I have become a slightly more than a novice stein collector, I have found myself thinking about things that I never thought about before. For example, why were these beautiful drinking vessels, steins, pokals, beakers, etc. made from so…
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Guest writer’s articles: “Glass Steins with Set-On-Lids.” – by Norman Paratore [Gambrinus Beer Stein Collectors’ Club]
Norman is a friend of mine and a member of the “Gambrinus Stein (Collectors’) Club ” of Virginia, Maryland and DC, and of SCI. Okay, what do you call these things? By the Stein Collectors International’s (SCI’s, and the commonly accepted definition, it is not a stein because the lid is not attached to the body or…
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Guest writer’s articles: “An exercise in dating a pewter pass cup.” – by Jerry Berg
Member and Past President of the “Carolina Steiners”, and SCI. Editor’s Note This is a very interesting article it touches on a small collectible sub-set of drinking vessels; “The Pass Cup”, It has a lot of boxing history, pewter info, its engraving and how to use chalk to enhance a photo. It was originally published in…
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Guest writer’s articles: “A Basket Stein, A Rather Rare Commodity.” – by Judith Ann Stuart
Member of the “Gambrinus Stein (Collecting) Club” of Virginia, Maryland and DC, and also of SCI. Basketry is the weaving of unspun vegetable fibers, usually to form a container. Baskets have been made from any wood, vine, leaf, or fiber that could be formed into a desirable shape. Our ancestors, no matter who or where…