Featured Beautiful antique Reinhold Hanke stein - any value without a lid?

Hi Book,
Wonderful gorgeous stein!!!! I would buy an old chipped or broken one and use the top. They are usually pewter but some are silver plated.
greg

 

Pretty sweet. I'd give that house room too.

 

If it was Mettlach it would have value, there's lots of people that have old lid and thumblift collections for replacement and do custom new lids and thumblifts.
Being a Hanke I'm not sure it's worth it for someone to pay for replacement parts and mounting.

http://home.earthlink.net/~davidharr/DavidHarr.htm

 

NICE looking stein!!!!! Is that what the hole in the top of the handle is for....a handle for a lid??? The top of the stein doesn't look to have too much wear......

 

Hi,
So many of them "lost" their lids in the 40s due to metal collecting for the war effort. My Gram took the metal plate showing her clock was made for them on their wedding day.
greg

 

probably not acceptable, but if you are only going to sit your lovely stein on a shelf and want a "decoy lid", you can have this one .......................on marked with a "63" inside and I do not think it is pewter. First class postage is cheap. It is 2.590 inches in diameter and has no inner flange. You won't hurt my feelings if you refuse, believe me...................

 

Despite the condition, it could have some value to Kaiser-memorabilia collectors, since it features a nice portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II. It even has the 'Karlskrohne', the crown of Charlemagne.
If the 'decoy lid' Mansons so kindly offered fits, it will look like Wilhelm is wearing a 'pickelhaube', the German helmet of the period.
A bit like this:

 

Ah yes, the "Fritz Fanatics"......................

 

what a handsome gent !!!
why did they name a bread roll after him ?? ,,,

 

why did they name a bread roll after him ?? ,,,

lol, NOT A CLUE! but, dang good rolls!

 

Yes, he certainly was handsome.
The bread roll was named after an Austrian Kaiser. There is some dispute if it was 15th century emperor Friedrich III or 18th century Joseph II.
In Austria they are called Kaisersemmel:

 

If I run across any others I'll keep you in mind...................I thought I had rid myself of ALL of these (steins & extraneous lids), but since I found the one I pictured, there are probably one or two more that escaped the Big Purge of 2014............

 

I know nothing about steins; but I notice that the first link mentions that "The stein was likely purchased lidless and the lid added by a pewterer."
Does that indicate that some of this design might have been made and sold in a lidless condition, or does the notation merely mean that a later purchaser found it in a lidless state, though it originally had a lid?
Are you sure yours originally had a lid? Or, if some were made lidless, I'd think they would still have value in their original lidless condition.
But what do I know. A chance for me to learn something; were some steins made lidless, and buyers added their own lids?