Description
INCLUDES One Pair of Earrings (2 individual earrings) in a jewelry gift box. MEASUREMENTS The earring charms are about 22mm x 27mm x 2.3mm (about .866" tall x 1.06" across x .091" thick), made of antiqued silver zinc alloy. The pierced ear wires are made with 21 gauge hypo-allergenic stainless wire. MATERIALS The earring charms are antiqued silver zinc alloy castings. The pierced ear wires are made with hypo-allergenic stainless steel wire. ABOUT Beer stein (/'stan/ STYNE), or simply stein, is an English neologism for either traditional beer mugs made out of stoneware, or specifically ornamental beer mugs that are usually sold as souvenirs or collectibles. in German, the word stein means stone & is not used to refer to a beverage container. Such Steins may be made out of stoneware, pewter, porcelain, or even silver, wood or crystal glass; they may have open tops or hinged pewter lids with a thumb-lever. Steins usually come in sizes of a half litre or a full litre (or comparable historic sizes). Like decorative tankards, they are often decorated in a nostalgic manner, but with allusions to Germany or Bavaria. It is believed by some that the lid was implemented during the age of the Black Plague, to prevent diseased fleas from getting into the beer. Etymology "Stein" is an abbreviation of German Steinzeug "stoneware", the common material for beer mugs before the introduction of glass. The word alone is not usually used in Standard German; rather, Krug, Humpen or, especially in southern Germany & Austria, Seidel are used. The word "stein" could have also originated from the German word Steinzeugkrug, meaning stoneware jug or tankard. By common usage, stein refers to a beer container with a handle & hinged lid. Bierstein in German means "beerstone" - i.e., "beer scale" - a hard residue of calcium oxalate, protein, & sugar formed when a brewing vessel is used repeatedly without exacting cleaning. History in the latter half of the 19th century, stein makers found different advantages within the different materials. The advantage in using stoneware to make steins was that molds could be used to mass-produce elaborately carved steins. in using glass, not only could one produce multiple glass mugs, but an artistic touch could add to the glass by including acid etchings, glass staining, or even multicolored overlays. Porcelain's advantage was that a stein fabricator could use molds to make "character steins", steins that had a particular shape modeled after an item or a person. Throughout the 1900s, collecting antique & replicated beer steins became a very popular hobby not only among individual people, but in museums as well. Production of beer steins has become substantial in America, but the largest producer of beer steins is Ceramarte of Brazil. The most traditional area of beer stein production is the Kannenbäckerland in the Westerwald region in Germany. This unique German potters region has been creating beer steins for centuries & is famous among
