Catalog No. 267
Pottery or stoneware, relief, 0.5L, pewter lid.
Text:
�Gesundheit und ein froher Muth,
sind besser als viel Geld u. Gut.�
(Good health and a happy disposition,
are better than much money and property.)
Gambrinus, �the king of beer�, has long been a universal symbol of beer and brewing. It has been suggested that the character may be drawn from the claimed real-life inventor of hopped malt beer, Jan Primus (Johann I), a 13th-century Belgian Duke and President of the Brussels Guild of Brewers.
See also Nos. 153, 182, 216 and 371.
Price Ranges Full-color: $60-$80 Ltd-color: $50-$70
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