| | Beer Stein Auction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20) |
 | | A Mettlach #1675 half-liter stein with a scene of Heidelberg brought $431.25; a Mettlach #1772 pitcher, a copy of Wedgwood, reached $815; and a Mettlach #2040 pitcher stein showing soldiers of the northern and southern German armies drinking together, symbolizing unification of the German states into the Empire, made it to $2070. |
 | | The steins' original retail price has no relation to their cost today; steins made for the general public could have been had for 25¢, and expensive steins for $7 or $8. |
 | | A "funnel man" character stein inscribed 7.7.9 and with "Wife, don't argue with your husband" in German on its body sold for $316.25, as did the nun character stein with a lithophane bottom, all in fl other than flesh-colored hands and face and a white bib. |
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