Would love to see it . I saw yesterday when I was at Lowe's that they now carry Butcher block and salad bowl finish . It's a finish that needs to cure after applying and should be water proof . Food safe AFTER it cures .
Thanks . There is something about the blue color on German steins that means something. Sam might have some info . zwiller .
Thanks, it is also a lot of work to remove the bark with out damaging the shelf. From what I read Red oak has a fairly stable bark so just sealed it with a matte varnish. If it ever starts to fall off I will pull the down and remove it all and refinish.I am really into German culture and have plenty of old steins here too but don't have much more info, sorry. You got me digging: https://antiques.lovetoknow.com/antique-german-beer-steins
My aunt has done estate sales a long time and is well known here for appraising collectibles and antiques. Her standard technique used to value things like this are reference books and there is usually a TON of cool info in these books. You guys got me fired up so I just picked up one of the books in the link above. Let me see what I can dig up.
Those steins look great and have a few that look identical to those. I seem to recall leaving bark on required lots of work to seal or something but looks GREAT for that application.
I am not serious about it but I collect german smokers like this.
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nice, next time I am in PA I am going to take pics of the bottoms for research. i am also going to ask my 89 YO father what he remembers about themMine are all scattered around the house for some reason (that is going to change) but here's my best guess on the oldest I have. This stuff is really cool to research. Stamped Mettlach on the bottom and did some digging...
https://www.beerstein.net/item.asp?ItemNum=vbm-2580
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I agree . Nice to find something that looks like what you have too . Keeps you interested .This stuff is really cool to research