Antique Villeroy & Boch Mettlach #485

Description

The stein depicted in this auction was made by Villeroy & Boch from the town of Mettlach. The stein is pottery, parian and the size is 0.5 L.  The name of the piece is "Muscians" and has the form number 485. The stein has a inlaid lid with a very nice thumb.  On the base is the Green Mercury mark.  Among the most well-known and highly regarded manufacturers from the “golden age” of German beer stein production in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is the Villeroy & Boch factory at Mettlach. Located on the grounds of a former Benedictine abbey on the Saar river in southwest Germany, the factory was originally established in 1809 by Johann Franz Boch-Buschmann, who merged with competitor Nicholas Villeroy in 1836 to create the firm of Villeroy & Boch.