This Mettlach 1/2L #2373 St. Augustine souvenir stein with an alligator handle is about 8-1/2 tall. They also made a stein without a lid and a different alligator handle. The bottom markings are very hard to read, but on the right it looks like a 6 and very faintly another 6 next to it, then turn it over so it's 99, I think it was made 1899.
On the front of this stein is the great crest of Spain, emblematic of the founding of St. Augustine, Florida by the Spanish in 1565. St. Augustine is the oldest continually surviving city in North America, and the large stone replica of the crest at the city's Castillo de San Marcos is a Florida landmark. Side images include St. Augustine's Ft. Marion, originally a Spanish castle completed in 1756, and the old city gate, built in 1808 and at one time the only entrance to the city.
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