Olympia stein age identification help

I know this is likely a later reproduction and apologize in advance if it does not qualify here, but was hoping that with the pictures someone could assist with an age estimate. My problem is there is no mark on the bottom and all the images I’ve seen have a number of different modern marks. I do not collect steins but this one just had a nice patina and look to it. If nothing else, I can use it as it was intended.

Any feedback would be appreciated - Thanks

 

Are you from Washington, Abe?

 

Pictured on the following beer stein website.

"OL040L - 1980's - This 6 1/4" lidded stein was made in West Germany by Gerz. Features a gold horseshoe and waterfall logo , on the front. Came in a brown box with straw."

Ninth pic down:
http://www.beer-steins.com/olympia/steins.html

History of the company:
http://www.brewerygems.com/olympia.htm

Then again it might be their 1904 stein. About 1/2 way down the above page.

--- Susan

 

Why is the horseshoe the wrong way round?

 

Clueless designer?

 

lots of horse shoe designs are that way with no thought to the....luck running out..!

 

Secret.

 

I think it's an older one than the Gertz one.
http://www.brewerygems.com/olympia.htm

 

If the shoe was on a hoof and the horse stepped in sand or anything else that was soft enough to leave a print, that is the way the print left would be.

 

unless u were facing the horse !!!!

 

Just a bit of horseshoe trivia:

"Some say it is most important to hang your horseshoe with the points upwards. They argue that this must be done if not your luck will escape.

You need to capture your luck inside the horseshoe; this will secure the home from evil encounters and keep the luck secure.

Others believe the opposite.

They claim that hanging your horseshoe with the points down will ensure good luck pouring down on everyone who walks underneath and will pour good luck into the home.

During the First World War the horseshoe with the points facing downwards on printed cards was most common.

Now it seems the wind has changed and more and more people tend to prefer the points of the horseshoe pointing up."

quoted from an on-line source about good luck symbols....................

So the graphic above may have been designed early in the century (not the stein was necessarily produced then).

 

Thanks for all the feedback. Looking at the images now from the various links, one detail that this stein has in common with the original image is the 3 lines around the base. The other later steins appear to have only one red line and from images on other sites, they also have pretty distinctive marks on the bottom. Thanks everyone and I completely missed the direction of the horseshoe points.