Posted 10 years ago
thimop
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Dear sirs
We just found a stoneware beer stein in the first gold mine in the new world
The date must be around 1530
Base=11.5 cms high= 115cms up=75 cms
Can you tell us if you have some similar object?
Please let us know if you could tell us who make that beer stein ,brougth here for the Wesler family envoy, just at the begining of mining activities at Cotui gold mine around 1528
Please write us
Thimo Pimentel,MD
Museo del Hombre Dominicano
thimop@elit-tile.net
Interesting you are posting this here. I wonder why your museum hasn't figured this out.
I'm glad you posted it even if you knew the name of the last person who drank out of it. Very interesting piece & thanks for sharing.
Dear fhrjr2
You wonder why our Museum hasn't figured this out before.
We are in aprocess of study and collecting historical material and that´s why y share with all over the world the stoneware stein findings in order to collect more uinformation.
We are planning to present this important finding in one of the conferences that each thursdday we make at the MDH, about a lot of interesting arcahaeological subjects.
In fact we are in front of a beer stein very rare and with no doubt if we are correct the first time that the beer was drinking in the new world.
Please hel us with information opf the Wesler and Fugger mining activities and the relationship with the beer and beer steins.
Thanks a lot for your comments.
Thimo Pimentel.MD
Museo del Hombre Dominicano
I assure you I intended no disrespect. I did take the time to view your museum web site. It struck me as odd you would post here looking for answers with the artifacts you have. What you refer to as a stein, years ago could very well have been called a tankard or even a flagon. Definitions and descriptions are different from country to country and era to era.
Dear fhrjr2
Thanks a lot
You are all right about the names.As you said years ago could very well have been called a tankard or even a flagon...we called stein because that clay used in that "mug" or "jar" or whatever named ...is very sim ilar to a stone...but at the same time is very fragile.
By the earlys 1500 those artifacts only could reach temperatures uin the kilns not above 500 gC and was late after that the scientifics from church changes the kilns structures and reach over 1200 gC.
The porcelain came to Europpe in 1700 and also the glazes...
Again thanks very much for your commentaries.
Warmest regards
Thimo Pimentel
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