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My dad bought his dad a whole store full of antique steins when he was based in germany in the 60s. He mailed them home in artilliary shell tubes, i guess my grandpa loved them. Then my father stored them for 50 years, finally went to free up space and sell them but theyre worth so little he brought me over to pick some out. Apparently there was a big 'stein bubble' at some point in the past 50 years, it came and went and he was oblivious. But looking at them theyre really pretty nice things, the color and craft and humor. Theres a bunch from ww1 that are cheap things customized to each soldier but the nice ones are these myriad varied units and the color and care are unusual to my eyes, really nicely made, nice like made by real craftsmen. I ended up putting them all in boxes and taking them home. I dont need them and i never secretly wanted collectible crap but theyre pretty nifty, sort of a memory of my grandpa that i never met and maybe my kids will think so to. Is sort of nice to own something post boom so you can try to tease value without the market hype.
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