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German Münchener Bürgerbräu Stoneware Beer Stein with Pewter Lid - German Münchener Bürgerbräu Stoneware Beer Stein with Pewter Lid A stoneware half-liter beer stein made for the Münchener Bürgerbräu brewery, decorated in gilt, red, and black lettering reading ”Münchener Bürger-Bräu, ” with a shield-form vignette of the Frauenkirche's twin towers and the founding date 1634. The pewter hinged lid carries a stamped Bürgerbräu medallion, the engraved inscription ”Fritz Faulhaber 1897,” and an acorn finial, while the body bears a 1/2 L capacity mark. Münchener Bürgerbräu was one of Munich's historic breweries, its beer hall on Rosenheimer Strasse the site where Adolf Hitler launched the Beer Hall Putsch on the night of November 8, 1923, an attempted seizure of power that ended in failure the following day near the Feldherrnhalle. The brewery and its hall, well established by the time of that event, had for decades produced steins such as this one for patrons and guests, making surviving examples a tangible link to a Munich institution later drawn into one of the defining episodes of Weimar-era political history. Münchener Bürgerbräu was among Munich's established breweries by the late 19th century, producing decorated steins of this type for its beer hall patrons as was customary among the city's major breweries. The brewery's hall on Rosenheimer Strasse became historically notable as the site where Hitler launched the failed Beer Hall Putsch on the night of November 8-9, 1923, an early attempt by the Nazi party to seize power in Bavaria that collapsed the following day near the Feldherrnhalle. The engraved date of 1897 on this example predates that event, placing it within the brewery's earlier commercial history before the hall's later association with Weimar-era political upheaval.