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Catalog No. 5396
Pottery, relief, 0.25L, pewter lid.
Text:
�Alt Heidelberg du feine, du Stadt an Ehren reich.�
(Old Heidelberg you fine city, rich in honors.
Text is taken from a poem honoring Heidelberg, written in 1853 by Josef Viktor von Scheffel and set to music in 1872 by Weise von Zimmerman.
Side images include Heidelberg castle�s 58,100-gallon royal wine keg, purportedly the largest wooden barrel in the world, as well as Perkeo, an 18th-century dwarf who served as both court jester and keeper of the royal keg. Despite his size, he was reportedly quite a prodigious drinker and, according to legend, his death came about when he mistakenly drank a glass of water.
See also Nos. 2000, 2001, 5013, 5014, 5358, 5375 and 6098.
Price Ranges
Full-color: $40-$60
Ltd-color: $30-$45
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