Attendance Prize
The Carolina Steiners Chapter, the host for this year’s convention, is proud to offer this magnificent Daubenkrug beer stein as a prize at the convention. Yes, this wonderful, mint condition, Daubenkrug is going home with someone who attends this year’s SCI convention at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The Carolina Steiners Chapter, the host for this year’s convention, was able to purchase this magnificent Daubenkrug beer stein, and you might win it at the convention! Every SCI member attending the convention will automatically be entered in a drawing for this stein. Your registration for the convention gives you a chance to win this stein, and you may increase your odds of winning by purchasing additional tickets at the convention.
Now, here’s some background information about this fantastic stein. Daubenkrug is the name used for a type of wooden stein which first appeared in the mid 1600s. These steins consisted of oak staves within a wrap around pewter design that was inlaid into the oak staves. Originally the staves were carved with the design, arranged cylindrically to form the body, and hot pewter was poured into the carved areas, locking them together. Later production techniques allowed for producing the wrap around pewter design in a separate mold and carving each stave to fit within the pewter design. One of the best known, and most respected, producers of the Daubenkrug was F. (Frans) Stantesson of Stockholm, Sweden. Frans was born into a pewter smith’s family, and learned the trade both by working with his father, and by working for firms in Europe and in the United States. In 1862 he took over his father’s workshop, applied for membership in Stockholm’s Pewter Guild, and after painstaking examination of his work, was accepted. He operated as a pewter smith in the City of Stockholm until his death in 1916. This magnificent Daubenkrug was made by F. Stantesson in the late 1800’s and displays the official Coat of Arms of Sweden in the center front portion of the pewter design. Flanking the Coat of Arms and continuing around the body of the stein is a very intricate filigree design. All of this is, of course, inlaid into the wood staves. Above and below the wrap around design are pewter friezes, and atop the lid is a medallion featuring King Oscar II of Sweden. This stein will be a treasured addition to anyone’s stein collection. The Carolina Steiners, host chapter of the 2010 SCI Convention at Myrtle Beach, wishes to thank Ron Fox for his assistance in making the purchase of this magnificent stein possible. Information included in this article was culled from both “The Beer Stein Book – Third Edition – A Four Hundred Year History” by Gary Kirsner, and from a two part article in Prosit (September & December 1989) by Master Steinologist Stephen L. Smith titled, “F. Stantesson – Stockholm Pewtersmith”