A few years ago, the annual stein collectors convention was in Annapolis Maryland, about 40 miles from where I live. Fred reached out to me, and invited me to join him and his girlfriend for dinner at the convention. Needless to say, a good time was had by all. Dinner was followed by a fundraiser auction of steins donated by members of the collectors club.
This one caught my eye, the design is nice, but what set it apart for me, is there is a music box in the bottom of it. When you lift it up, Edelweiss plays, when you set it down it stops. I don't remember what I paid for it, when the bidding stopped the person sitting across from me said, "you paid too much, it will take you years to get your money back out of it." I didn't buy it as an investment, I bought it because I liked it.
Ten years ago we spent a couple of weeks driving in Germany, I booked all of the hotels, we spent a night in Heidelberg.
The arts group here at the condo has a glass display case in the community center, the theme for the current show is Oktoberfest, this stein is in the display that opens this weekend.
I hope you get to fill it once and have some beer in it this October!!!! And don't forget to wear your plaid shirt and Lederhosen.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 19, my sister move to Germany and, on my first visit, I bought a couple of beer steins. It soon became a collection. Nothing as extravagant as yours with the music box, however. My mother then started adding to the collection by buying beer glasses, mugs, you name it. It was odd after that. Some gay friends commented that it was a very straight thing to collect. And now, I have no idea what I did with them all before we moved to Spain.
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