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Catalog No. 402
Pottery or stoneware, relief, 0.5L, pewter lid, signed �GK�.
Text:
�Keinen Tropfen im Becher mehr,
und der Beutel schlaff u. leer.�
(No more drops in the beaker,
and the purse is slack and empty.)
Text is from the poem �Die Lindenwirtin�, written by Rudolph Baumbach in 1876 and set to music in 1878 by Franz Wilhelm Abt. The poem honors �nnchen Schumacher (1860-1935), perhaps the most famous landlady/tavern keeper in German history and a popular figure with German students.
See also Nos. 79, 164, 168, 179, 195 and 1062.
Price Ranges
Full-color: $60-$80
Ltd-color: $50-$70
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