An old Bavarian souvenir beer mug with a volume of 0.5 liters. The porcelain blank for it was made by the Merkelbach factory & Wick was commissioned by a well-known distribution company in Munich, which was founded in 1873 by Jacob Reinemann. As part of this collaboration, molds with internal volumes of 1.0 L, 0.5 L, 0.3 L, 0.25 L, 0.125 L, 0.0625 L, and 0.05 L have been produced. As expected, there are some differences in the painting between the individual products in this range of volumes.
However, the mugs with a capacity of 0.3 liters have a more vibrant and colorful design. [link]
This is because the 0.3-liter mugs were marketed as women's mugs in those years. As a result, the mugs were designed with brighter and more expressive colors compared to the larger 0.5-liter mugs intended for men.
In our case, a 0.5-liter bottle is presented.
Mugs in the shape of a Munich boy were made as a souvenir for guests of Munich as part of fairs, exhibitions, singing and other competitive festivals, as well as for visitors to local breweries. A boy in a monk's robe with a beer mug in his hands and radish as a traditional monk's beer snack is considered a secondary symbol of Munich. He is called the "Munich Boy." Although in the original version, a boy in a monk's robe holds a bible, not a mug of beer.
In our case, the beer mug in the hands of the boy shows the letters HB. This is an abbreviation of the popular royal brewery and the beer house of the same name Hofbräuhaus in those years. This means that this souvenir was made for sale to visitors of Hofbräuhaus.
Jacob Reimann founded his company in 1873, but only seven years later, in 1880, he sold it to Otto Lowenstein, a Munich-based merchant. [link] Reimann established a distribution company to sell mugs as souvenirs. Reimann died in 1881, but Lowenstein continued to order and sell mugs with Reimann's name on the mug's label for many years.
You can watch a video about this mug at the following link:
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| type | Munich Child stein | material | stoneware |
| producer |
Merkelbach & Wick producer info | mold | 209 |
| designer/decorator | other | ||
| capacity | 0,5 | ||
| design date | 1900-1905 | ||
| height | 20.0 cm (appx. 7.8 inches.) |
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