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Catalog No. 315
Pottery, relief, 0.5L, pewter lid.
Exists with music box in base (add 20%).
Text:
�Alt Heidelberg du feine, du Stadt an Ehren reich,
am Neckar und am Rhein, keine andre kommt dir gleich.�
(Old Heidelberg you fine city, rich in honors,
on the Neckar and Rhine, no other can equal you.)
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 No. 438.
Price Ranges
Full-color: $60-$80
Ltd-color: $50-$70
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