Anyone familiar with beer steins?

[railman44]

I believe this to be fairly old.  On the side near the top it says " S 1/2 L "  Does the "S" stand for stein?  I know the "1/2 L" stands for a half liter.  Anyone know what the German on the top says?  Is it old?

[D&b antiques]

can't say for sure my self. ran in to this language problem before. prior to 1940 or there about's the german language changed from fractur.

To a newer version. found some old hand written letters in german. turned out to be a major find. order's for uniform's ( civil war) the process used for makeing ''cannon''s all hand written. a diary of the young man. who witnessed his first fireing of a black powder rifle.

Tell's about his journey while ship board around cape horn etc arriveing here in the state's.his trip to pennsyvania by covered wagon.etc

Did'nt intend to be so lengthy. just thought I would share.

Heading to pennsyvania

[coachgary]

any marking on the bottom? If so, take a photo and post... it will help us.

[railman44]

No marks on the bottom.

[railman44]

I put the same pics on a gun board I frequent and a reply from a fellow in Germany stated: "it's a very old "style" Bavarian dialect". 

Supposedly it says: "A little screaming, a little screaming. A little distinguished, one must be.
A big thaler (ancient silver coin) you need to honor, but you have to give them away anyways."

Another intrepretation by the change of a word: ""One has to pretend a little, and show off as being high class. But one doesn't have to be after the big money, because in the end, you have to leave it behind anyhow."

It would be interesting to find out just how old the stein is...

[D&b antiques]

it should predate 1940.that's the latest. the old german language was being taught.

[railman44]

Well, I found out it's a Regensburg stein made around the mid 19th century.  Collector value but not worth a lot.