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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 120545, member: 44&quot;]The following page has the following on old glass steins that are cut, engraved, painted or pressed. Yours may be mold blown faceted glass. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Old <b>glass steins</b> are especially difficult to assess - almost none were marked with a name and very few with a date. They may be cut, engraved, etched, painted or pressed. Except for the pressed ones, most were mouth blown and had handles attached in a separate process. Early glass steins lack the brilliance of modern glass, and old mold-blown steins have imperfections such as lime or sand spots, swirls, discolorations and streaks. Their designs lack sharpness, and pontil marks are visible. Glass steins which are plain, cut or etched and have a painted porcelain insert in the pewter lid can generally be considered old. But it is not difficult for an enterprising quick-buck artist to switch lids or salvage them from broken steins and mount them on recently produced glass steins. At least one German glasshouse is rumored to be making mold-blown steins using old forms.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Here the pic in this section with description beneath:</p><p><img src="http://stein-collectors.org/library/articles/Identifying/heidi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://stein-collectors.org/library/articles/Identifying/heidilid.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&quot;A half-liter clear glass stein, hand-blown with applied handle, c. 1865. The body has been faceted around the base, thumbprint cut above the waistline, and fitted with a porcelain inlaid lid in pewter mounts. The position of the thumblift (over the lid) and the closed pewter hinge indicate the earlier date. The traditional pastoral scene on the inlay is typical.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>About 2/3rds of the way down the page or the 3rd topic up from the bottom:</p><p><a href="http://stein-collectors.org/library/articles/Identifying/Old%20or%20New.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://stein-collectors.org/library/articles/Identifying/Old%20or%20New.html" rel="nofollow">http://stein-collectors.org/library/articles/Identifying/Old or New.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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